Blessing in Disguise - Off-Broadway Creative Team

J. Andrew Burgreen, appointed Executive Director of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, a 501c3 non-for-profit arts organization in Poughkeepsie, NY in March of 2015 moved to the Hudson Valley from Cape Ann, MA where he was Managing Directing and CFO for four seasons at the Gloucester Stage Company (GSC) founded by world renown playwright, Israel Horovitz. Burgreen directed several fund-raisers with a community singing group called, “Share the Music” and helped with the Massachusetts Cultural Commission’s designation of Gloucester’s Rocky Neck Cultural District. Under his leadership, the theater’s mortgage was reduced by $750,000 and Annual Appeals increased operational funding ... read more Howland was born June 16, 1971, in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he attended Berkshire Ensemble for the Theatre Arts (a camp for aspiring musical-theatre composers and librettists). While at Williams College, he was called to be an intern on the 1992 Vivian Matalon workshop of Jekyll & Hyde and worked his way up, becoming friendly with both composer Frank Wildhorn and arranger James Raitt, and eventually became the music director and conductor of the 1997 Broadway production. In 2002, Howland wrote a play with Larry Pellegrini called Blessing in Disguise which premiered Off-Broadway. His assorted ... read more