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DANTE STERLING (James Tyler and others) is a performer from Essex County, NJ. He studied voice and theatre at New Jersey City University, where he earned a BA in Music in 2005. From there, Dante embarked on a fifteen year career in the performing arts. Presently, Dante works primarily as a yoga teacher in northern New Jersey while figuring out what to do with his Master’s degree in French, and is always grateful for the opportunity to dust off the chops and get creative with other artists. A big thanks to Sam and WHAT for the opportunity to tell this story.
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recently seen in the National Tour of “Hairspray” which performed in 165 cities across North America over three years. Other National Tours/ Off-Broadway credits include: DuMaurier in “Finding Neverland”, Aunt Em/Wicked Witch in “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz”, Adelaide in “Guys and Dolls”, and Rita in the off-Broadway hit “Dexter: the musical parody”. Other favorite credits include Mrs. Johnstone in “Blood Brothers” (CCC Best Actress Award),
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KEVIN FOGARTY (Book, Music, and Lyrics) Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kevin Fogarty was a finalist for the Pipeline Theatre Grant, the John Wallowitch Award, and the Pamela Phillips Oland
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Festival), 6 seasons of Shakespeare in the Park and 5 years/4 continents touring with Platypus Theatre. Thanks to everyone involved with this exciting new production! Special thanks to my number 1 fan: Mamaman. Follow me @emmanuellezeesman
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full productions, and workshops by the Encore Theatre, Montgomery Bell Academy, and Skyline Theatre. A member of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Workshop, his other projects include music and lyrics for Unbelievable (with composer Rachel DeVore Fogarty and book writer John DeVore), a musical about female baseball pitcher Jackie Mitchell; and he contributed the lyrics for the musical A Thousand Faces (music, Rachel DeVore Fogarty; book, Eric Lane; directed by Sam Scalamoni) about silent film star Lon Chaney. He and his wife Rachel can also be seen
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SAM SCALAMONI (Direction and Musical Staging) Sam is thrilled to return to WHAT having directed Murder For Two here in 2019! Sam is the director of the critically acclaimed National Tour of Elf the Musical, which has toured domestically since 2012, playing the Theatre at Madison Square Garden and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Sam has served as Associate Director of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, for Disney Theatrical Group since 2001. He has supervised the show on Broadway and mounted multiple companies globally. Sam has developed
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Musical Theatre, based on the life of film legend Lon Chaney, the world premiere National Tour of the musical Noel with book by best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl book series, Eoin Colfer, and developed and directed the new family musical, The Elf on the Shelf; A Christmas Musical. Sam is developing a new musical, Unbelievable, about American baseball legend Jackie Mitchell and a miniseries based on her titled Jackie, baseball’s forgotten legend. Sam also developed and directed the National Tour of Storytime Live! for Nickelodeon, which broke box office records at
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Sam directed and collaborated with Alan Menken on two workshops of the Broadway musical Leap of Faith, he co-created and directed the developmental workshop of Mulan Jr. for Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theatre International, a workshop presentation of Sense and Sensibility at Playwrights Horizons, workshops of the musical At the Back of the North Wind at the National
Arts Club and The Village Theatre, a workshop of The New Picasso at New World Stages, Treaty
321! at the Lucille Lortel, and Fidelity Futurestage with Peter Gallagher at New World Stages.
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Carolina Theatre, The Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma and The Little Theatre on the Square. Sam directed a critically acclaimed production of Les Miserables at Cortland Repertory Theatre,
winning the SALT Award for Best Director of a Musical along with Best Musical of the Year. He also won the Broadway World Award for Best Director of a Play for his direction of Agatha Christie’s
An Unexpected Guest also at Cortland Rep. Sam is a founding member and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Skyline Theatre Company, a professional non-profit theatre company in New
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