The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) & Shea Sullivan will present R.R.R.E.D. A Secret Musical for FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY, October 1-3 at the 45th Street Theater. Based on a true study, R.R.R.E.D., with music & lyrics by Katie Thompson & book by Adam Jackman, Patrick Livingston & Katie Thompson, is directed by Andy Sandberg (Tony Award winning Producer of Hair), with musical supervision by Charlie Alterman (Next to Normal).
The Oxford Hair Foundation predicts that, due to globalization & population intermixing, the recessive gene which causes red hair will cease to exist by the year 2100. Now, in the year 2009, a secret red-headed revolutionary organization is taking matters into its own hands, fighting back against their pending extinction & standing up for the rights of red-heads everywhere. R.R.R.E.D. may be a comedy, but to Veronica & GJ, this is no laughing matter.
Featured in this AEA Approved Showcase Production are
Nathan Balser (9 to 5),
Kathy Deitch (Wicked) & co-authors Patrick Livingston &
Katie Thompson. The creative team includes
Charlie Corcoran (Sets),
Herrick Goldman, (Lighting),
Susan Nicholson (Lighting Assoc.),
David Mendizabal (Costumes), Megan Henniger (Sound),
Jason A. Quinn (Stage Manager), Lindsay Levine (Casting Consultant), luckydave (Projections) & Amber Estes (Production Manager).
Katie Thompson (Music/Lyrics/Book/Victoria O‘Hara) was last seen in
Michael John LaChusia's Giant at The Signature Theater in Washington D.C.. In New York she has performed in workshops for
Duncan Sheik's The Lighthouse Project,
Michael John LaChusia's Giant &
Scott Alan's Piece & sang at Broadway's Acoustic Soul & Broadway Loves Country, as the only performer not a Broadway show. She was the featured soloist on Say Goodbye in Dreaming Wide Awake with Eden Espinoza &
Shoshana Bean, created Connie Lou on the Original Cast Recording The Forgotten Carols & Sariah in The Ark. Her discography includes two self-produced albums, What I've Done Right and KT LIVE, both available on iTunes.
Patrick Livingston (Book/G.J. Crockett) has landed roles in every production from Peter Pan to Pippin. A favorite improv performer with Comedy Sportz & an award-winning composer & storyteller, he toured & recorded an album with Tuesday Night Supper Club. He is currently working on The Story Book Musical, a play he started writing on a train in Switzerland & single-handedly wrote some of The Death of
Katie Thompson.
Nathan Balser (Craig) has been kicking around NYC for a few years & you might have seen him in 9 to 5: The Musical, or Legally Blonde, or Damn Yankees at
City Center, or maybe not. He was even in the MTV version of Legally Blonde, Peter Pan at
Madison Square Garden & a choreographic workshop of Brigadoon. He's been lucky enough to work in regional productions of Minsky's, Mamma Mia! & Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Kathy Deitch (Stephanie Hicks) appeared on Broadway in the original company of Wicked, Footloose, Hair at
City Center's Encores! & the European tour (directed by
James Rado), The Maiden's Prayer Off-Broadway at The
Samuel Beckett (Libby) & A Girl Called Dusty at the Provincetown Theatre. You may have caught Kathy as a Chubb-Club dancer on "The
Rosie O'Donnell Show," "Cupid" (ABC) & in the web series Stream, produced by & starring
Whoopi Goldberg. She also sings with Broadway Inspirational Voices & leads a Heart tribute band named, appropriately, All Heart.
Adam Jackman (Book) retired from corporate life four years ago to build his own fictional media conglomerate, Adam Pictures. He has produced for GQ Magazine, written for civil rights pioneer Alan Isaacman & translated teleplays for
Jennifer Lopez. He hopes that R.R.R.E.D. will prove to be as influential as his first collaboration with Katie & Patrick, a production of
Stephen Sondheim's Assassins that included an on-stage hanging, an electric chair & actual, working handguns pointed into the audience, effectively ending their high school theatre program
Andy Sandberg (Director) is currently represented on Broadway as a producer of the hit revival of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Awards). He is also the lead producer of the forthcoming new musical The Last Smoker in America, with book & lyrics by Tony nominee
Bill Russell (Side Show) & music by Drama Desk nominee
Peter Melnick (Adrift in Macao) that will also be presented in NYMF. As a director, Andy is developing multiple new plays & musicals. Selected New York credits include Bernice Bobs Her Mullet (NYMF), Into the Woods (BHT) & "Eli's Comin' to Broadway," a BC/EFA benefit hosted by
Nathan Lane (Al
Ice Tully Hall/Lincoln Center). Upcoming are Operation Epsilon, by
Alan Brody & Garbo & Me by
Joanne Lessner &
Joshua Rosenblum. In 2007, Andy worked with
Hal Prince on the Broadway production of LoveMusik (SDC Fellowship).
Charlie Alterman (Music Supervisor) is currently the musical director/conductor for Next to Normal on Broadway & made his Broadway debut in
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, serving as both Musical Director & understudy to two of the male roles. Other credits include Broadway's Legally Blonde (Associate Conductor), Avenue Q & Brooklyn, the touring company of Grease (Conductor/Musical Director), Off-Broadway's Almost Heaven: Songs of
John Denver & Silence: The Musical! & regionally Next to Normal (
Arena Stage), the world premieres of Most Wanted (
La Jolla Playhouse) &
Charles Strouse's You Never Know (Trinity Rep) plus nine seasons with the
Williamstown Theatre Festival. He also MD'd the late night all-star cabaret series hosted by
Lewis Black & concerts with
Frankie Avalon,
Emily Skinner,
Dana Reeve,
Billy Porter,
Carol Woods &
Ken Page.
Since 1991
Herrick Goldman (Lighting Designer) has been designing lighting for theatre, dance, concerts, museums, corporate meetings & themed attractions in New York, Shanghai, Manila, Frankfurt, Australia & Canada. Off-Broadway credits include Rooms, Godspell, Latin Heat, Flamingo Court, All Is Love, Shafrika, Serenade, The Fearless & Streakin' Thru the 70's, plus Crash Test Dummies at the New Victory, The Last Starfighter, Meet John Doe & The Antigravity Tour at the Hammerstein Ballroom. He owns HG Lighting Design Inc., the principal design team for Antigravity, Madame Tussaud's (NYC) & Sudden Impact Entertainment. Broadway benefits include the 15th Anniversary Reunion of The Who's Tommy and Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, both at the
August Wilson. Set Designer
Charlie Corcoran's designs include The Night Watcher, (
Primary Stages), Sophistry, The Black Monk, The Bully Pulpit (Becket Theatre), The Yeats Project, Prisoner of the Crown, Sive, Defender of the Faith, The Field, (Irish Rep) The Metal Children (Vineyard), The Dishwashers (59 East 59th), Without Walls (CTG,
Mark Taper Forum), Engaging Shaw, Bookends, Her Hair Went with Her, (New Jersey Rep), The Molly Maguires (Kirby Center), Exits & Entrances (
Primary Stages, Edinburgh Festival), Rock Doves (
Irish Arts Center), Shogun Macbeth, Tea (Pan Asian Rep) & The Second Tosca (45th Street Theatre).
David Mendizabal (Costume Designer) credits include Broadway Bares 19.0: Click It! Google Me, Baby (co-design), Broadway Bares 18: Wonderland, My Favorite Dish (co-design), Man of La Mancha (
Duo Theatre), Tony-winning HAIR revival (Asst. to Designer), Taking Over (Public), Hunting & Gathering (
Primary Stages), Ohio State Murders (TFANA), The Misanthrope (NYTW). He is the Artistic Director of The Movement Theatre Company (TMTC), dedicated to creating and supporting diverse representations of artists of color in the arts & media. Megan Henniger (Sound Designer) is a full time employee at
Sound Associates Inc., as well as a freelance sound designer. Recent credits include The Gold, The Wedding Play & The Martian Chronicles. She has recently assisted
Peter Fitzgerald on Blithe Spirit & You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush.
Shea Sullivan (Producer) is a NYC based producer & choreographer. She is the President of SAS Productions Inc., which produces musicals, industrials, corporate events & instructional dance DVDs. Recently, SAS Productions produced events starring John Legend, The New York Knicks Dancers & members of the Radio City Rockettes. Upcoming projects include the new play Joan Crawford in "Hell Hath No Fury" & a new production of Pageant aimed for Broadway, 2010. SAS Productions is also working with Katie Thompson on a new album.
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