Creative team:

MASI ASARE (Music, Lyrics, Concept) Masi Asare holds a B.A. from Harvard and an M.A. from NYU Tisch, both in the obscure field of Performance Studies. Her work has been performed in New York City at the Ohio Theatre, Ars Nova, HERE, LaMaMa, the Dixon Place Not For Broadway Festival, and Galapagos; and at the Brisbane Theatre Festival in Australia and the Neuropolis Festival in Berlin. Masi was a co-founder, with writer/director Eamonn Farrell, of the NYC-based Anonymous Ensemble, an experimental performance group. She wrote music and lyrics for the ensemble’s productions Oracle, The Emperor’s New Vestments, Lysistrata, and The Best—a long-form experimental rock theatre project. She also spent five years as a staff songwriter and music director for the Kidstock Theatre in Massachusetts, where she wrote some sixty songs for children’s musicals. Other projects include a musical adaptation of the children’s book The Knight Who Was Afraid of the Dark, commissioned by the Pocket Full of Tales theatre company (Boston, L.A.); the original musical Dances for a Journey, a triptych about sisterhood and identity premiered at Harvard’s Agassiz Theatre; and a several year stint as Associate Artistic Director of Raw Impressions Music Theatre, where she co-produced the Music Theatre Marathon and consulted on the Ripfest Movie Musicals initiative. Masi is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, where Sympathy Jones was developed.

BROOKE PIERCE (Bookwriter) Brooke graduated in 2002 from New York University, where she double majored in Dramatic Writing and Religious Studies. She's written features and reviews for TheaterMania, New England Entertainment Digest, and Stage Directions Magazine, and she was a contributing author to The TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings and the Moon Metro New York City guidebook. Her play Misread was a Top Ten Finalist in the Kernodle New Play Competition, she's received both first and second place in the Tomorrow’s Playwrights Competition, and she has twice been a quarterfinalist in the Scriptapalooza TV competition. Staged readings of her 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 NYC. Her latest play, Beneath the Banyan Tree, will have a reading in New York this fall, 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.

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