Meet The Evolution of (Henry) Mann Creative Team!
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We're thrilled to present The Evolution of (Henry) Mann, a wonderful new musical about finding love in today's modern age. Meet the award-winning theater artists behind this exciting work:
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Douglas
Cohen (composer) A 2021 Drama League nominee for Prospect Theater
Company’s Don't
Stay Safe (co-written with Cheryl L. Davis), Doug
received the Fred Ebb Award and two Richard Rodgers Awards for No Way to Treat A Lady (produced
twice off-Broadway, Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Revival)
and The Gig (Manhattan
Theatre Club Stage 2, Goodspeed, American Stage Company, The York Theater
concert recording). Other musicals include The Big Time (book by Douglas
Carter Beane, all-star 2020 McCarter Theater concert), Children's Letters to God,
(Drama Desk nominee, Outstanding Lyrics), The Opposite of Sex (Williamstown
Theatre Festival), Bridges
(Berkeley Playhouse, three Bay Area Theater Critics Circle
nominations), and Barnstormer (Jonathan
Larson Grant, Bare Bones production @ Lark Theater). Doug is a member of
The Dramatists Guild and ASCA.
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Dan
Elish (book) wrote the book to the popular musical 13, which
played at the Mark Taper Forum and won the 2007 Los Angeles Drama Critics
Circle Award for best production; he was also nominated for best writing. 13 went on to
Broadway and theaters all over the world, and the film version will soon
be released by Netflix. Dan is also the author of 11 novels,
including Nine
Wives, on which The Evolution of (Henry) Mann is based. His
other works include The
Royal Order of Fighting Dragons, and Born Too Short which
won a 2004 International Reading Association Students' Choice Award for
young adult literature. Dan has also written numerous scripts for TV
(notably Cyberchase and The Wonder Pets)
and has penned music and lyrics to many children's musicals and works of
non-fiction for younger readers.
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Jason
Aguirre (Director) specializes
in new musical development and reinvestigating the traditional American
book musical. He is a member of the Directors Group at Roundabout
Theatre Company, a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre
Librettist Workshop, and a founding member of Theatre Now’s National
Musical Writers Group. Jason has also studied with The Upright Citizens
Brigade, The Groundlings, and the Broadway Dance Center Professional
Semester. He has several musicals in development including Sick Moves! (or The Dancing
Plague of 1518), Public
Dominance, and Disco
Destruction. Jason is a proud member of the
Dramatists Guild, an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and
Choreographer Association, and currently serves as the Associate
Artistic Director of Theatre Now New York.
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Meet the creative
team behind ATG's latest production "The Evolution of (Henry)
Mann"
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Can't wait to welcome you back to live theater this
October!
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