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THE CREATORS

Molly Beach Murphy‘s plays include: The Air Got Thick; IKE; Big Ben in the Red Dirt Desert. With core collaborators Annie Tippe + Jeanna Phillips, Molly co-creates experimental musicals such as Cowboy Bob, with two new pieces in early development. Molly’s work has been developed with New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage & Film, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ars Nova, the Alley Theatre, Page 73, The Civilians’ R&D Group, The Orchard Project, Ucross Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers’ Fund, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals, Pipeline Theatre Company. Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship Semi-finalist; Drama League Beatrice Terry Resident; New Georges Affiliated Artist. Published works in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Hairpin, Santa Ana River Review and American Theatre Magazine.

Jeanna Phillips makes and performs music and theatre for people of all ages. Her work has been supported by the NAMT 2020 Festival of New Musicals, The Village Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Ars Nova, Polyphone Festival, among others. Music for theatre: what’s this called, this spirit? (Ars Nova, Dixon Place); Cooking to me is Poetry with New Saloon (Galapagos Art Space); POE. (The Morgan Library). She’s currently in residence with nicHi Douglas at Atlantic for Kids/Atlantic Theatre Company developing The Last Grove, a piece for young audiences about trees. She makes original music for kids with Alex Thrailkill as Little Bandits, and you can hear more of her music for young folks on the Story Pirates Podcast. Alumna: New Victory Labworks, Fresh Ground Pepper PGPG, The Civilians R&D Group, Yale Institute of Music Theatre. BFA NYU Experimental Theatre Wing. Currently an M.A. candidate at the City University of New York’s Masters of the Arts in Applied Theatre.

Annie Tippe is a director and creator of new work, film and music theater. Recent: Premiere of Dave Malloy’s Octet at the Signature Theatre (Lortel Award for Best Direction, SDC Callaway Award Finalist) and Ghost Quartet (Premiere, The Bushwick Starr, etc…), Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love (Premiere, IAMA Theatre Company), Bess Wohl’s Continuity (Goodman Theatre), Molly Beach Murphy + Jeanna Phillips’ Cowboy Bob (Village Theatre; New York Stage and Film), James + Jerome’s INK (w. Rachel Chavkin, Under the Radar/Met Museum) and The Conversationalists (Bushwick Starr). Former Ars Nova Director-in-Residence, Drama League Directing Fellow, Williamstown Directing Corps.

Alex Thrailkill is a music director, arranger, and composer for new work. As MD: Cowboy Bob (Village Theatre, New York Stage And Film, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Ars Nova); Another Rose (Virgin Voyages); Guys + Dolls (UArts, arr. Ada Westfall); Spring Street Social Society’s Secret Supper: The Musical (co-composed with Jeanna Phillips) and Mermaiden: Or, The Monagamy; Salty Brine’s Record Collection cabaret series (Joe’s Pub). New Victory LabWorks Artist ’19-‘20, Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup Artist ’19-’20.