Nazareth College Students To Workshop New Musical MODERN

The Nazareth College Theatre and Dance Department will present a staged reading of the musical Modern. Written by Selda Sahin and Derek Gregor, directed by Ian Patterson, with music direction by Sarah Pool Wilhelm. The presentation will take place Saturday, February 29 at 2:00 pm in Studio Theatre A48 on the Nazareth College campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

Featuring Noah Detar, Alexandra Cooke, Connor Pofahl, Harrison Sakai, Isabel Wollerman, Abigail Young, Michael King, Nick Brown, Liliam Montilla, Nevasse Magone-Fragale, Adam Shank, Samantha Antoniewicz, Robert DiJames, Weston Pytel, and Kallie Tarkleson. Modern follows a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumspringa.

The piece has been workshopped at San Diego University's MFA Musical Theatre Program, Seattle's Village Theatre, ASCAP/Grow a Show (Lincoln, NE) and the ASCAP Stephen Schwartz workshop in NYC. Selda Sahin and Derek Gregor are a NYC-based writing team for the stage and screen. They wrote the original songs for the upcoming feature film "American Reject" (their songs are sung by Keala Settle, Angelica Hale, Rebecca Black, Annaleigh Ashford, Juvenile and Billy Ray Cyrus).

Their musical "Modern" was developed at The Village Theatre's Festival of New Musicals, the ASCAP/Grow A Show workshop in Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Stephen Schwartz ASCAP Workshop in NYC. Their film GRIND starring Anthony Rapp and Claire Coffee received awards at the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, SENE Film Festival, Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, and FilmOut San Diego (among others).

Album available on all platforms. Their song "Filling Space" received a single-song publishing contract with Ole in Nashville