BWW TV Exclusive: CUTTING-EDGE COMPOSERS CORNER- Ryann Redmond Sings Carmel Dean and Jenny Stafford's 'I Love You, New York'
By: Nicole Rosky Aug. 14, 2015
We're thrilled to present a brand new song by Carmel Dean and Jenny Stafford! "I LOVE YOU is a song about the love/hate relationship every New Yorker has with their city". Here is If/Then's Ryann Redmond singing it at our concert at 54 Below.
Carmel Dean is a New York-based, Australian-born composer, musical director and arranger. Broadway: If/Then (Musical Director), Hands on a Hardbody (Musical Director/Vocal Arranger), American Idiot (Musical Director), ...Spelling Bee (Vocal Arranger/Associate Musical Director). Off-Broadway: Emotional Creature, Everyday Rapture and Elegies - a song cycle by William Finn. Other: 52nd Annual Grammy Awards with Green Day; Chita Rivera's musical director for concert/cabaret appearances. As a composer her work includes A Girl Called Vincent (book by Tony Award nominee Dick Scanlan) and the YouTube series Project: Song Blog. Carmel is a graduate of NYU's Musical Theatre Writing Program. www.carmeldean.com
Jenny Stafford is a graduate of NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Her work has been produced off-off Broadway (The Artist and the Scientist, with Brandon Anderson, CAP21, Two Bugs Are Better Than One with Willem Oosthuysen, New York City Children's Theatre), and has been featured in New York (The Lincoln Center Songbook Series-The Lyrics of Jennifer Stafford, Prospect Theatre, 54 Below,Ars Nova, The Metropolitan Opera, NYMF, Merkin Recital Hall, Joe's Pub, Birdland, Don't Tell Mama), Chicago (Theatre Building Chicago, Spotlight Youth Theatre, STAGES Festival of New Musicals), and regionally at Barrington Stage, as part of William Finn's Ridiculously Talented concerts four years running, and Mr. Finn's Cabaret. Her musical Prodigy (with Willem Oosthusyen) received workshop productions through NYU, the Two Rivers Theatre Company, and Indiana University, and was a finalist selection for the Yale Institute for Musical Theatre. Awards include finalist performances in the Ronald M. Ruble New Play Competition (The Star Child, with Sarah Underwood and Josh Freilich), second prize in the McLean Drama Company Playwriting Competition (Skittles,presented at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington D.C.), the Paulette Goddard Award, and finalist selection for the Eugene O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference (Awakening, with J. Oconer Navarro and Joel B. New). She is a recipient of the Ross Ragland Fellowship, and has been an Artist in Residence at Goodspeed Musicals, CAP 21, and the Berkshire Playwrights Theatre. Jenny is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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