Out Of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman & Dimond Comes to Laurie Beechman January 28

OUT OF OUR HEADS is brought to you by the award-winning songwriting team Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond. Be the first to hear the exciting new additions to their songbook, as well as some of their classics. Join Kooman & Dimond for an evening of songs of love, loss, stalkers, and candy bars. Catch this one-night-only performance before it travels to the Kennedy Center as part of the Next Generation of Musical Theater series.

Produced by Evan Katz and Directed by Daniel Rigazzi, the cast features Natalie Weiss (Ever After: A Cinderella Story) and Anderson Davis (Les Miserables, High School Musical).

Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond met while students at Carnegie Mellon University. Their most recent musical, DANI GIRL, has been workshopped at the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop, CAP-21, and was recently awarded the KC/ACTF Musical Theatre Award. The duo's song cycle HOMEMADE FUSION has been produced at CMU, the Pittsburgh CLO's Late Night Cabaret, the Zipper Theater, Monday Night New Voices: Chicago, and has been featured in several NAMT showcases. Michael and Chris were recently fellows at the O'Neill Music Theater Conference and attended the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Workshop. Their work will be featured in upcoming concerts at the Kennedy Center and Monday Nights New Voices, and has been performed at colleges and theaters across the country. They are proud members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.

Dan Rigazzi is a director of Theatre and Opera. In 2008, he directed Dido and Aeneas at Bard College, the premiere of Courtney Baron's To Know Know Know Me for Keen Teens, and a concert presentation of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for the Berkshire Bach Society. This summer he assisted director Diane Paulus on the Broadway bound revival of Hair for the New York Shakespeare Festival. In 2007, Dan directed Julia Cho's The 100 Most Beautiful Names of Todd for the Drama League's DirectorFest, and his own adaptation of Woyzeck at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (MFA, 2007). He also branched out into a completely new medium, directing his first short film, Love and Bones, written by James McManus. While at Carnegie Mellon, Dan directed the first workshop of McManus' Princess Grace Award-Winning Play, Cherry Smoke, as well as the workshop premieres of The Purple Heart and of his own play, The True Story of the Murder of Helen Jewett. Dan is an alumus of the Drama League Directors Project, the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and the University of the South. He is an Assistant Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera.

Natalie Weiss holds a BFA in musical theatre from Penn State. She has performed in the pre-Broadway reading of Ever After, Scott Alan, Jason Robert Brown, Jeremy Schonfeld's concerts at Birdland, Tales From The Bad Years, Broadway Loves the 80's volume 3, and Monday's Nights New Voices. Regional credits include Pittsburgh CLO and North Shore Music Theatre. Natalie was an American Idol Season 4 top 97 finalist. She can be heard on Scott Alan's new CD, Keys, singing lead vocal on "The Distance You Have Come". Natalie is also a vocal coach in NYC, focusing on a mix of vocal control, phrasing, acting fundamentals, and music literacy.

Anderson Davis Broadway/New York: Les Miserables (2006 Revival), Damn Yankees (Encores!), Side Show (Roundabout Workshop), Pure Country (Workshop). Regional: West Side Story (Portland Center Stage), High School Musical 2 (World Premier- TOTS), A Funny Thing...Forum (Denver Center Theater), The Who's Tommy (Pittsburgh CLO), Equus, Lysistrata, Urinetown the Musical!. Also appeared in the NYC Premiers of Homemade Fusion: The Songs of Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond at the Zipper Theater and Become: The Songs of Pasek and Paul at Joe's Pub. BFA in Drama: Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Anderson sends love back home to his family.

TICKET INFORMATION:
For tickets, please call 212-695-6909. There is a $5 Cover and a $15 food/drink minimum.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located within the West Bank Café at 407 W. 42nd Street in Manhattan between 9th and 10th Avenues. 

 

 

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