Landau, Trask, Yanowitz, Dempsey and Grigsby Team For CLUELESS Musical Reading

Variety reports that CLUELESS: The Musical now has a creative team set for an upcoming workshop reading to take place August 11th through the 18th in New York City.

The creative team features director Tina Landau (Steppenwolf's SUPERIOR DONUTS,) the book writer John Dempsey, the music and lyrics team of Stephen Trask (HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH) and Peter Yanowitz (of The Wallflowers fame,) and musical supervisor Kim Grigsby (THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.)

Barry and Fran Weissler have been announced as lead producers. 

CLUELESS is a 1995 comedy film based on Emma by Jane Austen and set in a high school in Beverly Hills. It was written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin. The movie was released in the United States on July 19, 1995. It starred Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Jeremy Sisto, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Brittany Murphy and Dan Hedaya. The film spun off a television show and a series of books.

Tina Landau (Director) most recently directed The Tempest and Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where she is an ensemble member, as well as The Time of Your Life (also Seattle Rep, A.C.T.), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Cherry Orchard, and Charles Mee's Berlin Circle and Time to Burn, among others. She recently directed the world premieres of Tarell McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water at the Alliance and McCarter Theaters, Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas at Long Wharf Theatre and the Off-Broadway premiere of McCraney's Wig Out! at the Vineyard Theatre. Tina's work as a writer and director include Of Thee I Sing (Paper Mill Playhouse), Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse), Space (Steppenwolf, NY's Public Theatre, Mark Taper Forum), Stonewall (En Garde Arts), 1969 (Actors Theater of Louisville), Floyd Collins with composer Adam Guettel (Playwrights Horizons, Prince Music Theatre, Old Globe, the Goodman) and Dream True with composer Ricky Ian Gordon (Vineyard Theater). Other directing credits include Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature), A Midsummer Night's Dream (McCarter/PaperMill), and the Broadway revival of Bells Are Ringing. Ms. Landau teaches at Yale School of Drama and is the co-author, with Anne Bogart, of The Viewpoints Book.