Farah Alvin & Daniel Mate Set for Beechman Birthday Blowout, 9/27

Farah Alvin & DANIEL MATÉ'S BEECHMAN BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT will take place Tuesday September 27th, 9:30 at Laurie Beechman Theatre (407 W. 42nd Street). Admission by donation ($10 suggested donation) + $15 food/drink minimum. All door proceeds will go to September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (www.peacefultomorrows.org). Reservations recommended: call 212.695.6909.

Description:

Farah Alvin is an award-winning performer who also writes songs. Daniel Maté is an award-winning songwriter who also performs. They were born a year apart on September 28th. Both are based in New York City and are mutual admirers of each other's musical theatre work. And yet they have never worked together before... until now.

This Tuesday, on the eve of their mutual birthday, Alvin and Maté finally join forces for Farah Alvin & DANIEL MATÉ'S BEECHMAN BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT. They will each perform selections from their own and each other's songbooks, as well as presenting the world premiere of the Alvin-Maté writing team's first-ever original song. They will also perform covers by artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell, Wu-Tang Clan, Ani Difranco, Radiohead, and Steely Dan.

All proceeds will go to September 11th Families For Peaceful Tomorrows, a network of 9/11 victims' families committed to promoting a worldwide culture of peace and reconciliation.

Bios:

Farah Alvin is an acclaimed singer and actor who recently created the role of Ginny in the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees at the Signature Theatre in Arlington Virginia, directed by Tina Landau. Farah also starred as Georgia in the new musical The Tenth Floor in the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival for which she received a 2010 Talkin' Broadway Festival Citation for Best Actress. She starred as Missy Miller in the hit Off-Broadway show The Marvelous Wonderettes, for which she received a 2009 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical. She has appeared on Broadway in Grease!, Saturday Night Fever, The Look of Love: The Music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the Tony Award wining revivial of Nine, and Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway credits include the recent cult hit I Love You Because, Cam Jansen and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Other Story Books for TheatreworksUSA, and Jewish Repertory Theater's revival of Kuni-Leml.

Farah has performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Indianapolis, Detroit, Seattle, Nashville, Fort Worth, Phoenix, Toronto and the National Symphonies of both Canada and the United States. Also an accomplished songwriter, Farah's debut album "someday," was released in 2003.

www.farahalvin.com

DANIEL MATÉ is a composer, lyricist, bookwriter, and music theatre educator who received a 2010 Jonathan Larson Foundation Grant and the ASCAP Foundation's 2010 Cole Porter Award for his music and lyrics. His song cycle The Longing and the Short Of It was presented at Barrington Stage Company in 2009 (curated by William Finn) and subsequently at the 2010 Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop (helmed by Stephen Schwartz.) He also wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book, with composer Will Aronson, for the Kafka-inspired musical The Trouble With Doug (2008 Goodspeed Festival of New Artists; workshop production, CAP 21, 2009; NAMT Festival 2010, Victoria Clark, dir.; currently in development at Royal and Derngate, Northamptonshire, UK.)

Daniel is the Founding Artistic Director of Blue Room Arts Collective. BRAC's first show Brooklyn's Got Character[s] a concert of original theatre songs drawing on the lives and personalities of real Brooklynites, debuted at Galapagos Art Space in September 2010 under Daniel's artistic direction, and was featured in the Daily News and the Brooklyn Paper. He also founded a highly popular "domestic arts event" called the In The House Festival, which continues to this day in his home city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

www.danielmate.com