LAST CALL
_TERRI GIRVIN – Credits include:
Off Broadway: Hysterical Blindness (Soho Playhouse), Lypsinka - A Day
in the Life (Cherry Lane Theatre), Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Circle in
the Square Downtown). Regional: Peter Pan (Peter – Virginia Stage Co.),
Paper Moon (Ford's Theatre), Beehive (Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas), Grease
(Jan – Theatre League Tour), Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Herberger
Theatre, Phoenix), Working (Phoenix Little Theatre), West Side Story
(Anybodys – L.A), Sweeney Todd (Tobias – L.A). In addition to having
originated several roles in new plays that you've never heard of… Terri
is also a stand up comedian having worked at most of the clubs in New
York City. As a comic, she was also a host for Good Morning America’s
“All Night Long” series, and featured in the VH1 programs “Robbing the
Cradle” & “Hot Babes, Ugly Guys”. Most memorable gig? A live
industrial where the line up consisted of only Terri, General Colin
Powell and The Brian Setzer Orchestra… She is most proud of her 9 years
of work with Only Make Believe, a non profit theatre company that
creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and
care facilities. Only Make Believe is dedicated to the principle that
freeing a child’s imagination is a valuable part of the healing process.
_MICHAEL
LEEDS - B’way: Swinging On A Star
(Writer/Director Tony Award nom. Best Musical). Off-B'way: Hello
Muddah, Hello Faddah - The Songs of Allan Sherman (Drama Desk Award nom.
Best Director/Best Choreographer).
Lypsinka - A Day In The Life (Director/Choreographer),
Showing Off (Director/Choreographer,
starring Donna Murphy), The First Step
(NY International Fringe Festival),
Carmelina and 70,
Girls, 70 (starring Jane Powell & Charlotte Rae) for the York Theatre’s
Musicals In Mufti series. Regional/International: Arthur Miller’s Playing For Time (Director/Adapted teleplay, Edinburgh Fringe
Festival First Award), A Little Night
Music (Director/Choreographer, Houston Grand Opera starring Frederica Von
Stade & Thomas Allen) and Marc Blitzstein’s Regina (Florida Grand Opera starring Lauren
Flanigan). Film: choreographed End of Summer (starring Jacqueline
Bisset & Peter Weller), co-wrote The
Simian Line (starring William Hurt, Lynn Redgrave, Tyne Daly, Harry Connick
Jr., Cindy Crawford) and The Last Film
Festival, (starring Dennis
Hopper, Jacqueline Bisset, Leelee Sobieski & Chris Kattan.) As a Songwriter: Martin Charnin's Off-B’way revues Upstairs At O’Neals and the No Frills Revue, as well as CBS’s The Comedy Zone. His plays include The
First Step (authored as Henry Covery) and The Gift. As
librettist: Miracles (co-wrote with
Joe Stein, score by Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Schwartz, David Shire, Marvin
Hamlisch) and a new version of Cole Porter’s Red, Hot And Blue (Director/Writer, Goodspeed Opera/ PaperMill
Playhouse) as well as co-writing the book, music and lyrics for Mating Habits of the Urban Mammal,
(Broward Stage Door Theatre). In
South Florida: the inaugural season of Laffing
Matterz at the Broward Center for Performing Arts (Director/Choreographer),
the new Lisa Loeb musical, Camp
Kappawanna for City Theatre (Director/Choreographer), The First Step (Empire Stage Theatre), The Boys In The Band for Rising Action Theatre, A Little Night Music (Carbonell nom.
Best Musical), The Glass Menagerie, Come Blow Your Horn, Mack And Mabel (Carbonell
Best Musical), Steel Magnolias, Last of
the Red Hot Lovers, My Fair Lady and The
Light In The Piazza (Silver Palm Award for Direction) for the Broward Stage
Door Theatre. Michael is currently developing a new musical, Theme Dreams, for Tiger Theatricals.
PHIL PALAZZOLO - Most recently his work on Neko Case's album ‘Middle
Cyclone’ granted him two Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary Folk Album,
and Best Recording Package. He also produced/engineered on the New
Pornographers albums "Challengers" and "Together". In
theatre, he was the sound designer on “Escape from Bellevue: A Rock and Roll
Odyssey” written and performed by Christopher Campion, and ran to sold out
houses at the Village Theatre in the heart of Greenwich Village.