Marella Martin Koch
Latest News on Marella Martin Koch:
Immersive Play RAGERCIZE to Open at Sunlight Studios This Month (Jun 9, 2023)
San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-24 Inaugural Season In Newly Renovated Jacobs Music Center (Feb 6, 2023)
Jane Austen Opera Concept Album Premieres Online December 25 - 31 (Dec 22, 2021)
Immersive Play RAGERCIZE to Open at Sunlight Studios This Month (Jun 9, 2023)
San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-24 Inaugural Season In Newly Renovated Jacobs Music Center (Feb 6, 2023)
Jane Austen Opera Concept Album Premieres Online December 25 - 31 (Dec 22, 2021)
Marella Martin Koch BIO
Marella Martin Koch, writer-director, is the founder of The Rally Cat. She was previously the associate to Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler, as well as the managing editor of SDC Journal, a quarterly publication celebrating the crafts of stage directing and choreography. She earned a B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. from the NYU/Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. She is the librettist of Marianne Dashwood, Songs of Love & Misery with music by 2018 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awardee Aferdian Stephens. First premiered at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music, Marianne Dashwood has since been presented at Yale School of Music and the SUNY Plattsburgh Jane Austen & The Arts Conference and was commissioned by mezzo-soprano Meagan Martin, winner of the 2018 Hershey Felder Competition for Classical Musicians. Her short operas include I Celebrate for "Park and Bark" with American Opera Projects and the NYU/Tisch Opera Lab and Ten Minutes in the Life or Death of... (music by TJ Rubin). Her short musical How Love Feels (music by Jonathan Fadner) has been presented by Barrington Stage Company, Common Man Musicals, and National Asian Artists' Project. Full-length projects in development include Sense & Sensibility with Aferdian Stephens, Adam & Eve with Minhui Lee, and Danny & The Rocket with Casey O'Neil, which was developed in part at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 2017 Writers' Retreat and has received readings and workshops at the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and Tisch New Musical Theatre Workshop. In addition, she has directed readings, concerts, productions, and happenings throughout Los Angeles and New York.
Marella Martin Koch News
Immersive Play RAGERCIZE to Open at Sunlight Studios This Month
From June 16 to June 25, The Rally Cat will present Ragercize: an aerobic catharsis at Sunlight Studios in Manhattan.
San Diego Symphony Announces 2023-24 Inaugural Season In Newly Renovated Jacobs Music Center
The San Diego Symphony has announced the wide-ranging programs of its 2023-24 Jacobs Music Center season that will introduce audiences to the organization's renovated and revitalized indoor home, Copley Symphony Hall at Jacobs Music Center, beginning November 4, 2023.
Jane Austen Opera Concept Album Premieres Online December 25 - 31
On Christmas Day, The Rally Cat will premiere a new Jane Austen inspired concept album. With stirring music by award-winning composer Aferdian (ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award) and a propulsive libretto by Marella Martin Koch (West Edge Opera Aperture Commission Winner), Elinor & Marianne is the story of two sisters whose lives are thrown into chaos by their father’s sudden passing.
Dramatists Guild Foundation Announces 2021 Award Recipients -- Brittany K. Allen, Avi Amon, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Paulo K Tiról
Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) has announced this year's recipients of their annual Awards, honoring playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists who show promise in their writing to invest in the future of theater through their stories.
Dramatists Guild Foundation Announces 2021 Recipients Including Brittany K. Allen, Avi Amon, and More
Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) has announced this year’s recipients of their annual Awards, honoring playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists who show promise in their writing to invest in the future of theater through their stories.
The American Opera Project Announces Presentation Of Five New Opera Scenes By Composers & The Voice Fellows
This September, The American Opera Project, one of America’s leading homes for the creation of original lyric theater, kicks off its 33rd season with premiere music from five distinctive new operas at an outdoor concert in its home neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
New Opera West Presents Streaming Animated Dog Opera PEPITO
New Opera West has released streaming animated dog opera, Pepito. Pepito tells the story of a couple who go to an animal shelter hoping to adopt a puppy, but are met with surprise and uncertainty.
Rattlestick Announces New Episodes of MTA RADIO PLAYS, VILLAGE SONG Cycle, and More February Events
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced details for new episodes of MTA Radio Plays along with several free online events in February. The activities highlight new and necessary theatrical voices while also deepening connections between audiences and artists in new and meaningful ways.
BWW Opera Review: PARK AND BARK - The Next Generation, from NYU and AOP
“Park and bark” is a term usually used derogatively when speaking about opera--a kind of old-style singing that involves standing still and bursting forth in song, with little or no acting skills involved. There certainly wasn't anything old-fashioned about the operas or the group of young singers who performed them at NYU's black box theatre on May 7 (except perhaps their good training) in “Park and Bark--6 Mini-Operas about Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park.”
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