Shannon Deep

Lyricist

 

Shannon Deep works as a writer and dramaturg in New York City. Partnering with the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Education Department, she acted as a dramaturg and co- writer for PROSPECT HIGH: BROOKLYN, a semi-finalist at the 2015 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center and published by Smith & Kraus. Conceived by a Fox Foundation Fellowship recipient and a team of urban high school students, the play brings their lived experiences to the stage with an honesty rarely seen in theater for young audiences. PROSPECT HIGH: BROOKLYN will have rolling world premiers at 23 high schools across the U.S. through spring 2016.

 

Deep has served as dramaturg/script supervisor for Kathy Najimy’s one-woman show in development, LIFT UP YOUR SKIRT, and is currently working in the same capacity for Yuval Boim and Darren Katz’s SEXCURITY, a one-man movement-based show premiering at the Cleveland Public in March 2016. She has worked as a dramaturg on new and evolving work with such theater makers as The Representatives and Rady & Bloom Collective Playmaking, and is a script reader for the Roundabout.

 

As a playwright, librettist, and lyricist, her work has been showcased in readings, festivals, and cabarets (Identity Theater Company, The Triad, Scotch’n’Soda Theatre) and some of her narrative non-fiction essays can be found on The Huffington Post, Narratively, and Thought Catalog. In conjunction with the Southwestern Pennsylvania Center for Deliberative Democracy, she developed Deliberative Theater, a method of policy discussion and community polling that combined scholar Jim Fishkin’s principles of Deliberative Democracy with theatrical performances. Two Deliberative Theater events, both written and organized by Deep, were held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, including one televised (live and rebroadcast) event in conjunction with WQED Studios, PopCity Media, and the League of Women Voters.

 

She holds her Bachelors in Humanities and Arts in Drama and Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University, and went on to earn her masters in Arts Management from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon a year later. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

 

In almost a decade of collaboration with composer Scott Wasserman, Shannon has provided the lyrics/poetry for several songs, a children’s musical, and the song cycle SONGS FOR MARION.

 

Shannon blogs for the Huffington Post as a companion to her own blog, This Millennial Life.

Scott Wasserman

Composer

 

Scott Wasserman lives and works in New York City as a composer, orchestrator/arranger, electronic music programmer, and music director.

Recent credits include:

 

Broadway: HAMILTON – Ableton Programmer/Rehearsal DJ; ANNIE (2012 revival); LEAP OF FAITH - Music Assistant/Rehearsal Piano.

 

Off-Broadway: INVISIBLE THREAD (Second Stage) – Ableton Programmer/Rehearsal Piano; HAMILTON (The Public) – Ableton Programmer/Rehearsal DJ.

 

Other New York: TO HELL AND BACK by Joel B. New (NYMF 2015) – Orchestrator; CANNOT STOP THINKING OF HER with Andy Blankenbuehler (BC Beat 2015) – Arranger; STANDARDIZED TESTING – THE MUSICAL!!!! by Sam Wilmott (Playscripts, Inc.) – Co- Orchestrator; SOAPDISH with Kristin Chenoweth and John Stamos; THE SPARKLEY CLEAN FUNERAL SINGERS (The York Theatre); GREENWOOD (NYMF 2011); Broadway Backwards 6 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Television: SESAME STREET, WALLYKAZAM – Transcriptions & sheet music preparation.

 

Regional: DEAR EVAN HANSEN (Arena Stage, Washington DC) – Ableton Programmer; THE WIZ; INTO THE WOODS; LITTLE WOMEN; LEGALLY BLONDE for Red Mountain Theater Company, Birmingham, AL - Music Director/Key 1/Conductor.

 

Scott holds a BFA in Music Composition from Carnegie Mellon University, having trained under studio teachers Nancy Galbraith and Reza Vali, and orchestration professor Leonardo Balada. Scott was the Undergraduate Prize winner of the 2010 Student Composers’ Competition with AOEDE’S DREAM for orchestra. In his junior year Scott was selected as one of three composers to work with Derek Bermel and Wendy Walters in association with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on a composer/lyricist residency program, culminating in performances of his works at Heinz Hall and the Andy Warhol Museum in downtown Pittsburgh. Scott’s book of arrangements of early American folk songs, "Heritage," can be purchased from Alpha Major Publications.

 

Proud member of Actors' Equity Association and Local 802 AFM. Scott is originally from East Hampton, CT. For more information please visit www.scott-wasserman.com