Analog and Vinyl Set for The Davenport Developmental Reading Series 3/14

Broadway and Off-Broadway producer Ken Davenport (author of the popular blog, The Producer's Perspective) will present Paul Gordon's Analog and Vinyl as the fifth selection in THE DAVENPORT DEVELOPMENTAL READING SERIES, for readings of new works (plays and/or musicals), on Monday, March 14th at the Davenport Studio (250 West 49th Street, Suite 302, NYC). Analog and Vinyl is directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and stars Sarah Stiles, Rob Morrison, Peter Scolari, and Vella Lovell. Music direction is by Jodie Moore. The performance will be at 4:00pm followed by a talkback with the writers. To RSVP, visit analogandvinyl.eventbrite.com.

Tossed amongst the vintage records is Harrison's broken heart--until a quirky, sexy, Rodeo Girl and a mysterious customer with a little extra soul enter the equation...Will Harrison discover there's more to life than LPs from the Sixties?

Analog and Vinyl is the fifth presentation in the Davenport Developmental Reading Series. The series takes place every three months and highlights new plays or musicals from exciting up-and-coming writers. Information regarding submissions can be found at www.DavenportTheatrical.com.

Paul Gordon was nominated for a 2001 Tony Award for composing the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical Jane Eyre directed by John Caird and Scott Schwartz. He won a 2011 Ovation award for his score to Daddy Long Legs and won the 2007 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for his book to the musical Emma. Emma, for which Mr. Gordon wrote book, music and lyrics, has had productions at The Old Globe Theatre inSan Diego, TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Repertory Theater of St. Louis. Daddy-Long-Legs, written with John Caird, had its world premiere at The Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California in the fall of 2009, winning three Ovation Awards. The production has since gone on to play TheatreWorks, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Broad Stage, North Light Theatre, The La Marida Theatre and the Laguna Playhouse. At least ten new productions are slated for the 2011-2012 season. His other works include Analog and Vinyl, Death: The Musical, Being Ernest and Lucky Break. Mr. Gordon is currently working on Little Miss Scrooge, a contemporary retelling of the Dickens classic. Mr. Gordon has written several number one pop songs and is the recipient of nine ASCAP awards. For more information please visit his website: www.paulgordonmusic.com

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur, a NY-based theater company. Recent credits include: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), Dead Man's Cell Phone (NYU/Tisch), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival, Huntington Theater Company, Boston and HERE Arts Center, NYC), Heart Torture Station (New Georges/Jam on Ice), Missed Connections (Ars Nova), One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro (Joe's Pub), The Long Tail (Abrons Arts Center), and Autobahn (NYU/Tisch). Her regional work includes Three Days of Rain (Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth, Texas). Adrienne has spent three summers at Williamstown Theater Festival where she directed the non-Equity company in plays including Daniel MacIvor's Never Swim Alone and Steven Levenson's Girls Day. She has assisted Alex Timbers, Anne Kaufman, Michael Greif, and Roger Rees. She is a recent recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship, the EST/Sloan grant, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

Rob Morrison is stoked to be a part of Analog & Vinyl! He can currently be seen in the off-Broadway company of Avenue Q. Other credits include Big River (Goodspeed Opera House), Urinetown (Lyric Stage, Boston), and Pinkalicious (New World Stages). Rob is also a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the folk-rock band The Hollows. www.thehollowsonline.com

Peter Scolari is a founding member of NYC's celebrated Colonnades Theater, 1974 - 1979: Camille in A Flea in her Ear, Moliere in Spite of Himself, Reflections, The Ballroom in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Warbeck. Broadway: Cole Porter's Out of this World, Ziegfeld Follies of 1937 (at City Center's Encores), Hairspray, Sly Fox, and as Littlechap in Showtime's Stop the World I Want to Get Off. Winner of the Berkshires Theater Festival Best Actor Award for his work in The Foreigner. Off B-Way: White's Lies at New World Stages, It Must Be Him at the Peter J. Sharp, Playwrights Horizons. Stage West Toronto/Calgary Boeing Boeing. Episodic TV: The West Wing, ER, Family Ties, Drew Carey, The Nanny, King of Queens, Reba, Ally McBeal, Touched by an Angel, and numerous others. HBO's Emmy Award winning From the Earth to the Moon and The Ryan White Story; also Perfect Harmony, Talk to Me, and The Ultimate Christmas Present. Features: The Polar Express, That Thing You Do, Camp Nowhere, Suburban Girl, Plumm Summer, upcoming Letting Go. TV Series: Bosom Buddies, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: the TV Series, among others, and Newhart, for which he was thrice Emmy Nominated, one win, and with consecutive American Comedy Award honors. TS, I love you. Keaton, Cali, Nick and Joe too.

Ken Davenport's recent productions include Oleanna starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, Speed-the-Plow starring Raul Esparza, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America (Tony nomination), Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury, and 13. He also recently released These Magnificent Miles: On the Long Road with Red Wanting Blue, a documentary on one of the top unsigned rock bands in the country. Ken is the only independent producer to have had three shows running simultaneously Off-Broadway - Altar Boyz (co-conceiver), The Awesome 80s Prom (author/director) and My First Time (author/director). Ken was featured in a national commercial for Apple's iPhone, named one of Crain's "Forty Under 40," and dubbed the "P.T. Barnum of Off-Broadway" by The New York Times. He also accepted the 2010 Award of Distinction from the Musical Theatre Society. Current projects include producing the Broadway revivals of Godspell and Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men, penning the musical adaptation of Somewhere in Time, launching his latest creative collaboration Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage. Ken created and developed the AT THE BOOTHTM smartphone app which Entertainment Weekly called "the best thing to happen to theater since, well, the introduction of the TKTS® booth." He also runs a number of theatrical websites including Broadway's #1 social networking site - BroadwaySpace.com, which has just launched the Broadway board game Be A Broadway Star. His blog, TheProducersPerspective.com, has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Gothamist and many others. He has written articles for Forbes, Mashable, Imedia and others. For more, visit DavenportTheatrical.com.