Welcome to sympathyjones.com - February 07, 2012
SYMPATHY JONES is now available to license through Playscripts! And psst...a new studio cast album is coming soon!
Jane Summerhays (Kitty), Glenn Peters (Tick Tock) and fellow NYMF cast members
BROOKE PIERCE (Book)
Brooke graduated in 2002 from New York University, where she double majored in Dramatic Writing and Religious Studies and served as Theatre Editor of the NYU paper. She has written for TheaterMania.com, New England Entertainment Digest, Stage Directions Magazine, Show Business Weekly, and Go2 Mobile, and she was a contributing author to The TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings and the newly published book Arts America (as well as its companion website artsamerica.us). Staged readings of Brooke’s plays and musical theatre projects have been held at Stage One Theater in Louisville, New Jersey Dramatists & The Waterfront Ensemble in Teaneck and Jersey City, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival’s PlayFest 2005 in Orlando, and at both Ensemble Studio Theatre and the American Theatre of Actors in New York City. Her latest play, Beneath the Banyan Tree, recently had a reading at the Snapple Theater in NYC, produced by eyeBlink Entertainment. Brooke is co-director of the new London-based theater company This Stage Limited, and she is a member of the Drama Desk and the Dramatists Guild of America.
MASI ASARE (Music, Lyrics, Concept)
Special Thanks
Many thanks to Michael Kerker, Stephen Schwartz and the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop, Jean Banks and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, Emily Miller, Kris Stewart, Isaac Hurwitz and the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), Jill Campbell, Sharon Pearson, and the State High Thespians. We would also like to thank our generous financial supporters and the many amazing actors and other artists who helped us develop the show. Please click here for a full list of these artists...to you all: A SUPER BIG THANK YOU!