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my collaborators |
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Mike Pettry |
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Mike is a composer, lyricist, pianist, guitarist, accompanist, and musical director.
He is a 2007 Jonathan Larson Award winner, and the state and regional winner (as well as national finalist) of the 2004 MTNA Composition Contest. Along with The Time Travelers Convention, |
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Writer, actor and director extraordinaire.
Mikey directed two projects of mine, Iphigenia and Other Daughters and The Last Five Years. |
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Lila Rose is an accomplished, brilliant and inspired director and playwright with whom I worked on And Baby Makes Seven, Herself, and The Biography of a Constellation. She is also a founding member of the Temporary Theater Company.
Lila Rose has been a long time friend and collaborator of mine, and is now getting her MFA in playwriting from UCSD. Learn more at www.lilarose.org |
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Lila Rose Kaplan |
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Michael Perlman |
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Great friends and colleagues include the two other founding TempCo members (in addition to Allison Geffner, Lila Rose Kaplan and me)artistic director Jaime Green and general manager James Egelhofer. |
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and my mentors |
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Brown University Graduation, May 2004 Me with Oskar Eustis (far left) and Lowry Marshall and John Emigh (far right) |
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“A true friend is one who makes us do what we can.”
- emerson
These are the people who continually inspire, enlighten and, of course, entertain me. |
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anne runolfsson singer extraordinaire and voice teacher |
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the family |
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If you hadn’t guessed, Mike is also my boyfriend and best friend. |
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Andrew Hertz is a brilliant composer and music director. Andy is also an MFA graduates of NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, writing his thesis musical Flipside with Mike.
Andy has also written a musical Torah! Torah! Torah! with Steven Levenson that debuted at Brown University this past summer. He is currently teaching a music theater writing course at Brown University and somehow finds time to also music direct and play for the hilarious Apple Sisters. |
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the trio: mike, me, and andy |
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His recently commissioned musical, The Wonderful World of Zidney (book and lyrics by Shawn Northrip), was read as part of the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival. He has also written music for Sunday in Montgomery (commissioned by Troy State University) and the film Rupture with Tommy Newman. He wrote book and lyrics for Flipside (2007 Frederick Loewe Award winner) with composer Andrew Hertz. Mike’s songs have been performed at Ars Nova (Mike Pettry: The Voices in My Head), Don’t Tell Mama’s, The Duplex, and The Daryl Roth DR2 Theatre. Mike continues to accompany and music direct in New York City. He has also played guitar for a reading of The Black Suits at the Zipper Theater (opening at MCC, May 2008) and Things To Ruin: The Songs of Joe Iconis at Ars Nova (NYMF) and Joe’s Pub. Mike has a BA in piano and composition from Shepherd University and an MFA in musical theatre writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. media page of my website. |
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Andy is one of my best friends and collaborators, and he can always makes me laugh. He is also responsible for the Pettry & Karpen collaboration/fiasco. |
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Mikey is also one of my bestest friends and favorite collaborators. |
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Andy Hertz |
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I am the bear to her rose and we are a force. |
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tempco |
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the rest of the crew |
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Please visit the links page to visit the sites of so many other brilliant artists, directors, actors, singers, designers, composers and lyricists alike. I’ve been blessed to work with some remarkably talented people. And if you are one such artist and find your website conspicuously missing, just email me so I can add you.
And if you haven’t made a website, get on it so I can help share you with the world. |
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They keep me cultured with good books, music, theater, conversation &company. |