Zak Resnick and Lilli Cooper Join JOEY CONTRERAS IN CONCERT for NYMF Next Month

Additional Broadway performers, Zak Resnick and Lilli Cooper, join "Joey Contreras In Concert" Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 8 PM at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street).

Contreras, an award winning and iTunes Pop Charting songwriter, brings his brand of musical pop to NYMF in 2015. Inspired by the spectacle of award show performances, this one night only concert will present Joey's catchy and emotionally charged music in a way its never been heard before.

The evening will also feature a host of special guests including Broadway's Ben Fankhauser, Zak Resnick, Lilli Cooper, Kerri George, Adam Kaplan, Krystina Alabado, Diana Huey, Spencer Kiely, Brad Greer and more. Audiences will surely not want to miss out on experiencing this exciting new voice on the scene. Additional performers and team members will continue to be announced.

The concert is produced by Bryan Campione (Broadway Buzz, LLC) and Fuzzrocket (http://fuzzrocket.com) and directed by Brandon Ivie. Additional team members include: Production Manager: C.J. Mellides, Production Assistants : Madeline O'Hara and John Dippel.

Joey Contreras In Concert plays at The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street). Tickets are $27.50 (general admission) or $16 (with a NYMF Pass) and can be purchased online at NYMF.org or by calling 212-352-3101. For more information, visit www.nymf.org/joeycontreras.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival nurtures the creation, production, and public presentation of stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals to ensure the future vitality of musical theatre. Now in its twelfth year, the Festival is the largest musical theatre event in America. The preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theatre fans. More than 90 Festival shows have gone on to productions on and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters in all 50 states, and in more than 20 countries worldwide. Festival alumni have received a wide array of awards including the Tony Award® and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, NYMF received a special Drama Desk Award in recognition of its work "creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form."

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

NYMF Passes are a great way to experience The New York Musical Theatre Festival. With a NYMF PASS, you can get into the theater before individual ticket holders. Passes also offer the exclusive ability to book tickets before they go on sale to the public. NYMF Passholder ticket booking began June 1. Individual tickets go on sale June 15. The 2015 New York Musical Theatre Festival will take place July 7-27. For more information, visit www.nymf.org.

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