Our 18th YEAR of NEW MUSIC
at our NEW HOME at LINCOLN CENTER!
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
BRUNO WALTER AUDITORIUM
111 Amsterdam Avenue
(just south of 65th Street)
Phone: (212) 870-1630
Monday, May 11, 2009 --- 6PM
ADMISSION: FREE
G A B Y
A L T E R
- award-winning composer / lyricist
Musical direction by Gillian Berkowitz
Directed by Michelle Tattenbaum
Produced and Hosted by
John Znidarsic
Pearl Sun (Happiness)
Mary Faber (Avenue Q)
Matthew Hydzik (West Side Story)
Krysta Rodriguez (In the Heights)
Lauren Marcus
Jason Williams
Jared Weiss
Liz Gross
Tommy Newman
Graham Stevens
and MORE!!!
GABY ALTER (composer/lyricist) is the recipient of a 2008 Jonathan Larson Grant, and a winner of the San Francisco Theater Critics' Circle and New York Fringe Festival Songwriting Awards. His projects include BAND GEEKS (with Tommy Newman, Mark Allen and Gordon Greenberg), which is being developed with Goodspeed Musicals; the pop song cycle TWENTY-NINE (with Tommy Newman), which was selected as NYU Steinhardt's 2007 Spring Musical; and REALITY! with playwright Itamar Moses, which was workshopped at the Cape Cod Theatre Project in 2008.
Gaby has written songs and music for PBS TV's Pre-School Kids Block, the public radio show Backstory, and the documentaries Nerdcore Rising (2008 South by Southwest Film Festival) and Keep Eye On Ball: The Hashim Khan Story. His theater songs have been heard at William Finn's new songwriters' cabaret at Barrington Stage Company, the 2006 Tisch On Broadway Benefit hosted by Billy Crystal, and TheATrainPlays at New World Stages. He is a member of the Dramatists' Guild and ASCAP, and an alumnus of NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.