Fugitive Songs Production Staff:

Director: Joe Calarco *
Asst Director: Mike Mosallam
Music Director: Justin Mendoza
Scenic Designer: Brian Prather
Lighting Designer: Joel Shier
Assistant Lighting Designer/Production Electrician: Jeremy Cunningham
Costume Designer: Jennifer Caprio
Production Stage Manager: Max Daniel Weinstein *
Co-Producer: Chad Hudson
Co-Producer: Chip Klose
Press Representative: Charlie Siedenburg
Assistant Costume Designer: Jennifer Leigh Adamso
Technical Director: Colin Stewart
 

Joe Calarco * (Director)  OFF-BROADWAY: Shakespeare’s R&J (adaptor/director, Lucille Lortel Award, also the West End and Tokyo); Playwrights Horizons: Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky; Primary Stages: Boy; Second Stage: in the absence of spring (writer/director); The Lucille Lortel: Sarah, Plain and Tall and The Summer of the Swans; The Transport Group: The Audience (contributing book writer). NATIONAL TOUR: Ring of Fire. REGIONAL: The Old Globe: Lincolnesque (world premiere); Barrington Stage Company: The Burnt Part Boys, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (book writer/director); Signature Theatre: Assassins, (Helen Hayes Award), Urinetown  (Helen Hayes Award), Sideshow (Helen Hayes Award), Nijinsky’s Last Dance (Helen Hayes Award), Nest (world premiere); The Shakespeare Theatre: A Midsummer Nights Dream; Philadelphia Theatre Co.: The Last Five Years (Barrymore Award Best Musical), Elegies (Barrymore nomination), M. Butterfly; Berkshire Theatre Festival: Nijinsky’s Last Dance. Twice Charmed: an original twist on the Cinderella story (Disney Creative Entertainment). Upcoming: The Glass Menagerie (The Old Globe).  Click here for Joe's Web site!

 * The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national union.

Justin Mendoza (Music Director)
Justin Mendoza, originally from San Francisco, spent 3 years as Associate Music Director of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, the internationally acclaimed San Francisco institution and longest running musical revue. In his three-year stint there, he had the privilege of working with such people as renowned opera legend Frederica von Stade, Michael Tilson Thomas, and George Lucas. Since moving to New York, he recently served as music director for The Phantom Tollbooth (in collaboration with Sheldon Harnick), That’s Andy (with Beth Leavel, Lauren Kennedy, and Burke Moses), and served as a sub pianist for Don’t Quit Your Night Job. Other credits include: Falsettos, john and jen (San Francisco premiere), The Fantasticks, Jesus Christ Superstar, Once on this Island, Seussical, Pippin, The Will Rogers Follies, Oliver, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Personals, and Smile. Justin is a graduate of UC Irvine with a BA in Film Studies.
 

Mike Mosallam (Assistant Director): an actor, director, and teacher living in New York City, Mike is thrilled to be assisting Mr. Joe Calarco and working with his good buddies Chris and Nathan. He's directed over 30 regional productions in the Midwest and on the East Coast, concerts and readings at Joe's Pub, the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and at the Makor. He is the Artisic Director of the Arab American Comedy Festival (Dearborn, MI). As a performer, Mike was featured in the Kennedy Center's revival of CARNIVAL!. He can be seen in THE WATCH LIST on Comedy Central, and can next, Mike will be in Malibu, CA starring in the new musical, WEST BANK, UK. His one-man show, MUSLIM: the musical! has been seen regionally (and on youtube.com!). Proud AEA member and UMich grad. GO BLUE! LYT! MOSMIKE@aol.com

Max Daniel Weinstein * (Production Stage Manager) is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Stage Manger Association. He has stage managed and assisted on numerous productions throughout New York City. Most recently he was the Assistant Stage Manager on the Off-Broadway production of Sessions - The Musical, and Production Assistant on the Brian Stokes Mitchell Actors Fund 125th Anniversary Benefit at Carnegie Hall. In addition he is the Production Manager for Ten Grand Productions Inc.

* Denotes Actor's Equity Organization Member

Joel Shier (Lighting Designer) has designed productions of Ragtime, Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Piano Lesson, Coriolanus.  Also, B’way: The Little Mermaid (ML Tracker), Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Asst. LD), Lestat (ML Tracker).  National Tours (Asst. LD): Sweeney Todd, Thomas & Friends Live!  Off B’way: The New Century (Asst. LD), Greetings From Yorkville (Asst. LD), Floyd & Clea…. (Assoc. LD).  Regional (Assoc. LD): Bowfire, Saving Aimee, Witches of Eastwick, Into the Woods.  Other (Asst. LD): Broadway Bares XVII, XVIII.  Thanks for everything PDM & PSR.

Jeremy Cunningham (Assistant Lighting Designer/Production Electrician) has previously assisted Joel on productions of Ragtime and The Piano Lesson. He has also worked as an assistant for JKLD Inc. and on a production of Measure for Measure at the Sage Theatre. Jeremy has also spent three summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival serving as the master electrician on productions of Lucy in the Conquest, Nervous Smile, The Opposite of Sex and Spring Awakening. His design credits include productions of Urinetown: The Musical, The Country Wife, Bone Machine and numerous live music concerts for The Floorwalkers.

Brian Prather (Scenic Designer) is a scenic and lighting designer primarily throughout the New York and New England areas. Most recent NYC work includes the premiere of Fair Game for the Genesius Theatre Group; the premiere of Badge for Beacon Productions, the Drama League Directing Festival for Vital Theatre, and various festivals for the First Look Theatre Company at the NYU Department of Dramatic Writing. He is also resident designer for the New Musical Lab at Barrington Stage Company, curated by William Finn and Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. There he has designed several premieres and workshop productions including The Burnt Part Boys and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (with Joe Calarco, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen), Calvin Berger, Funked Up Fairytales, and Travels With My Discontent (directed by William Finn and featuring the music of Deborah Abramson). He has also designed recent productions A Picasso, Fully Committed, and Thief River also for Barrington Stage Co.; Urinetown for the Yale Dramatic Association; The Exonerated for TheaterWorks Hartford; On the Town for the Hartt School; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for the Actors Co-op; and lighting design for the premiere of Bed No Breakfast at the Kitchen Theatre. He is also the Assistant Professor of Scenic Design for Ithaca College, where he just recently designed the opera La Finta Giardiniera. He is an M.F.A. graduate from Brandeis University.

Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen (Composer & Lyricist): Recently profiled in The Dramatist Magazine under “Fifty to Watch,” composer Chris Miller and lyricist Nathan Tysen have written The Burnt Part Boys (book by Mariana Elder; developed at Theatreworks in Palo Alto; produced at Barrington Stage Co.; American Theatre Critics New Play Award Finalist; 2008 NEA Grant recipient; opening Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre 2008). Other work includes an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (book by Joe Calarco; developed at Mercury Musical Developments in London, Playwrights Horizons, and Barrington Stage Co.). Chris and Nathan are recipients of the 2007 Kitty Carlisle Hart Award at the Vineyard Theatre, a 2006 Richard Rodgers Award, the 2004 Darryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, a 2004 Frederick Loewe Foundation Grant, and the 2003 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant. Chris studied piano and voice at Elon University while Nathan received his BFA in musical theatre performance from Missouri State University. They began collaborating together at New York University where they received their MFA’s in musical theatre writing. They are currently working on a commission from Lincoln Center Theatre, and a new musical with playwright Craig Wright.

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Charlie Siedenburg (Press Representative) is thrilled to be working again with Dreamlight Theatre Company as they launch their second season. Charlie is Press Director for Barrington Stage Company and works at Sam Rudy Media Relations here in NYC assisting on PR for Passing Strange, Avenue Q, the New York Musical Theatre Festival and Off-Broadway’s Runt of the Litter. Charlie represents Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young, Patrick Page (Broadway’s Grinch), Scott Siegel’s events at The Town Hall, and the acclaimed PBS documentary “Words and Music by Jerry Herman.” He has also represented George Street Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and Two River Theater Company. NY credits include Side Man, The Sunshine Boys, the 50th Anniversary Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Awards; many Off-Broadway productions and not-for-profit institutions. A Staten Island native and Wagner College graduate, Charlie resides in West New York, NJ .

Chad Hudson (Producer): is a proud member of Actor's Equity Association and has been a working theatre professional for the past 15 years. Chad is a co-founding Producing Director of Dreamlight Theatre Company. Chad has performed leading roles across the the country and made numerous solo appearances with symphonies around the world. Favorite roles include Dickon in The Secret Garden, Jinx and Sparky in Forever Plaid, Tobias in Sweeney Todd and title characters in Batboy: The Musical, Candide and Pippin. Chad has directed more cabarets than he cares to count and has served as dance captain/ asst. choreographer for many companies. Chad is thrilled to be a co-founder of the Dreamlight Theatre Company and hopes to bring together artists who share his passionate love of musical theatre. Chad is a graduate of Indiana University with a degree in Musical Theatre with honors.

Chip Klose (Producer): is a co-founding Producing Director of Dreamlight Theatre Company. He began his career as an actor - proud member of Actor's Equity Association - performing roles at the Walnut Street Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Allen’s Lane Theater, and Foothills Theatre. His Directing and Choreographing credits include West Side Story (Annenberg Center for the Arts), the Philadelphia premiere of Sondheim’s Putting It Together (Gershman Studio Theatre), the World Premiere of Clayton Haske’s Three Little Birds (Adrienne Theatre), Godspell (Little Days Productions), Into the Woods (Lonely Sky Theatre Company), Finding Home: The Music of Ricky Ian Gordon (Opia Cabaret Theatre), and a number of cabarets, benefits, and concerts. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of the Arts. Much thanks to his wife, Lesley, and all his family and friends for their undying love and support.