Carner & Gregor to Stage SOMEBODY PUT ACID IN THE EGG NOG at The Triad, 12/19

Songwriters Sam Carner and Derek Gregor will present SOMEBODY PUT ACID IN THE EGG NOG, a concert of original holiday songs by some of musical theatre's most notable new writers, on December 19th. The concert will be hosted by Ben Cameron (Broadway Sessions, Wicked, Aida) and will star Natalie Weiss (Breaking Down the Riffs, Everyday Rapture) and Carole Demas (original Sandy in Grease, The Magic Garden).

Carner & Gregor, winners of the Richard Rodgers Award, the Kleban Prize, and the John Wallowitch Award, will share a variety of comic and/or sweet holiday songs of theirs, along with a pair of mini holiday musicals. They will be joined by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair, writers of the Off- Broadway sensation Murder for Two, Larson Award winning writers Tim Rosser and Charlie Sohne, Popesicle and My Life is a Musical writer Adam Overett, internationally performed songwriter Bobby Cronin, Johnny Mercer and Dramatist's Guild fellow Alexander Sage Oyen, and Drew Overcash, all presenting original holiday material.

Joining Weiss, and Ben Cameron in the cast will by Drew Arisco, McKenna Cox, Theo Dolan, William Thomas Evans (A Tale of Two Cities, The Scarlet Pimpernel), Christopher Gilroy, Michael I. Haber, Carly Kincannon, Andrew Mayer, Jake McKenna, Tyler McKenzie (Mamma Mia), Elyse Moon, Adam Overett (Light in the Piazza), Samantha Rhea Parrish, Stephanie Sequeira, Emily Schultheis, Doug Shapiro (Once Upon a Mattress), Sebastian Hedges Thomas (Kinky Boots), and Kevin White. Colton Pometta (Wanda's World, creator Songwriter's Salon) will direct.

SOMEBODY PUT ACID IN THE EGG NOG will be presented at the Triad Theatre / Stage 72 (158 W. 72nd St., New York, NY) at 9:30pm on Saturday, December 19th. Tickets will be the holiday appropriate $12.25. For more information and tickets, visit www.triadnyc.com/event/ba1cdb0ba08a084a667f6f9a940a807b.

Watch "The Egg Nog Song" -- a holiday song by Carner & Gregor to be performed on December 19th -- below!

Sam Carner and Derek Gregor won the 2014 John Wallowitch Award for songwriters under 40, Sam won the 2015 Kleban Prize for "Most Promising Librettist," seven of their songs have been nominated for MAC Awards, and they were included in Playbill.com's twelve "Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know." Their work is performed in hundreds of venues around the every year and has been performed on all seven continents.

Carner & Gregor's musical Unlock'd played an extended Off-Broadway run at the Duke Theater in 2013, having won a Richard Rodgers Award and "Best of the Fest" at NYMF. Their musical Island Song was produced in 2014 at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, having had workshops around the US, as well as concerts at (le) Poisson Rouge in New York, Crawfish in Tokyo (in Japanese!), London's St. James Studio, and the Comedie Nation in Paris.

Current projects include additional songs for Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (book by Todd Graff and songs by Michael Devon, direction by Susan Stroman), which had a recent workshop with the Vineyard Theatre, and an adaptation of Rex Rose's novella Toast, which is slated for a workshop production at the Bloomington Playwrights Project in early 2016.

Their short children's musical Love, Splat has toured the country since 2013 in the TheatreWorks USA revue The Teacher From the Black Lagoon and Other Stories. They have written numerous songs for revues and web series, including My Gay Roommate, Redheads Anonymous, and more. www.carnerandgregor.com