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ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
CHRISTOPHER MCGOVERN (Music, Book, Lyrics)
is a commercial and theatre writer whose most recent project is "Crash Club" (co-written with Bill Castellino & Bill Whitefield). The pop/hip-hop musical was premiered at The Cherry County Playhouse, and won a 2000 NEA grant. Other scores include Theatreworks/USA's "The Ugly Duck" (seen Off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre as well as on a national tour), "Six Story Building" (which premiered this past spring at the Judith Anderson Theatre) and numerous industrials and cabaret pieces. He is the resident composer/lyricist for Stages of Imagination in Philadelphia, where his music and lyrics have received two National Parents' Choice Awards. The video version of "Wooden Heart" for Stages was honored with 2 Telly Awards (for non-broadcast cable programming.) He is also the author of many other short pieces for the theatre and a screenplay. He has served as musical director, orchestrator, arranger and pianist for many Off-Broadway and regional shows, including Amanda McBroom's new musical "Will's Women" (directed by Joel Silberman), "The Jazz Singer" directed by Richard Sabellico, "The Fishkin Touch" starring Mike Burstyn and Joan Copeland at Playhouse 91, the Outer Critics Circle nominated "That's Life!" (original company and cast album), Gary ("The Me Nobody Knows") Friedman's "Sheba" (and cast album). Regional credits include "Tommy", "Grease", "Little Shop", "World Goes 'Round", "Fairy Tales" and "Godspell", and "Joseph" (starring William Katt) and Martin & Biello's "Breathe" seen at the NYC Downtown Arts Festival and the First Annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival. In concert and workshop he has accompanied such artists as Tony-nominees Alison Fraser, Tovah Feldshuh, Rebecca Luker, and Susan Egan, as well as Gilles Chiasson, concert artist Roslyn Kind, and MAC Award winners Nancy Timpanaro and Rita McKenzie, touring the country with her in her one-woman show "Ethel Merman's Broadway." He has produced the solo CDs for Alison Fraser ("Men In My Life"), Gilles Chiasson ("Slow Down") and MAC winner georga Osborne ("Now Available In Stores") as well as the running tracks for the Spirit Cruise line fleet across the United States. Mr. McGovern in a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Temple University's Jazz and Commercial music program.
AMY POWERS (Lyrics)
is equally at home in the worlds of pop, country, R&B, film and Broadway. Her songs have been featured in Oscar and Tony winning works and recorded by #1-selling and multi-platinum artists in the United States, Britain, Europe and Japan. Ms. Powers' first published songs, "As If We Never Said Goodbye" and "With One Look", achieved international renown in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard., and were first introduced to the US by Barbra Streisand on her best-selling "Back To Broadway" album. Ms. Powers' first film effort, "When We Were Kings", was the title track to the Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. Other recent recordings include album cuts by former Take That artist Gary Barlow (Arista/RCA), Elements of Life (RCA), Diamond Rio (Arista/Nashville) and Max Sharam (WB). Her work has also been recorded by such other renowned and diverse artists as Brian McKnight, Patti LuPone, Diana King, Ty Herndon, Tarkan and David Broza.A Harvard Law and Columbia Business School graduate, Ms. Powers was a practicing attorney until 1990. She currently resides in Los Angeles and writes frequently in Nashville, New York and London.
BILL CASTELLINO (Director)
directed and choreographed the world premieres of Amanda McBroom's "Heartbeats" which he co-created, at the Old Globe Theatre (as well as the Goodspeed, Pasadena Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse and a National tour), Elizabeth Swados' "We Are Not Strangers", Swados' and Gary Trudeau's "Rap Master Ronnie" (and subsequent productions), The New York Shakespeare Festival's "Fantasma", Mike Reid's "A House Divided", Biello and Martin's "Breathe," Ernest Thompsons' "Another Summer" and many other productions Off-Broadway, in regional theatres and on the west coast. Television credits include: "Stop The World" (A & E), "Rap Master Ronnie" (Cinemax), and "Martin Mull's Variety Hour" (Showtime). In concert format, he directed the Carnegie Hall debuts of Amanda McBroom and Ann Hampton Callaway. He has taught at the University of Texas and Boston University and is the recipient of Chicago's Jefferson Award, eight Dramalogue Awards, and four LA Weekly Awards. He is currently directing "Jolson" the Olivier Award-winning new musical (starring Mike Burstyn) which is currently on tour. Mr. Castellino has been working with the creators of "Lizzie Borden" since its inception, having directed every incarnation since the first living room reading.