Al D’Andrea (book) is a stage director, writer and actor. He is the former Artistic Director of the Third Step Theatre Company, a collective of theatre artists devoted to new play development and production that was active in New York during the 1980’s and 1990’s. As a writer, Al developed and directed the Third Step’s premiere production of Onlyman, a contemporary retelling of the Greek myth of Narcissus and Echo, which he co-authored with MK Wolfe. He oversaw the development and directed the premiere production of Third Step's first original musical, The Christmas Bride, book by MK Wolfe, based on the Charles Dickens’ short story The Battle of Life.  Al also conceived and directed the Company’s developmental workshop and critically-acclaimed production of the new musical The Elephant Piece, an absurdist-environmental exploration of violence in homo sapiens as a species, written in collaboration with Darryl Curry. Working with longtime collaborators Curry and Wolfe, Al acted as project director, story contributor and co-bookwriter for the musical George Q, a contemporary retelling of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Currently Al is writing the script to the new play Omniphobia, an exploration of fear in contemporary society that he has developed with an acting ensemble in workshops he directed during the summers of 2007 and 2008. Al has also directed scores of productions, workshops and readings of original and classic theatre works in Los Angeles, New York, regionally and internationally. 
Visit his website at: www.al-dandrea.com

Darryl Curry (music) is a composer, arranger, performer and music director whose work ranges from jazz to musical theater to sacred music. Mr. Curry has written the musicals The Elephant Piece, Quitters, George Q (music; with MK Wolfe), Dorian Gray and most recently, Mesmerized (music; with Al D’Andrea and MK Wolfe) as well as incidental music for the 1999 Twentieth Anniversary production of The Elephant Man. He has two commissioned works: The 46th Street Mass and the sung ballet My Shadow. His music has been performed at Merkin, Weill, and CAMI concert halls and he has been music director in cabaret at such venues as Don’t Tell Mama, The Space @ St. Clement’s, Danny’s Skylight Room, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Palm Room and Pulse Ensemble Theatre. Mr. Curry is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he received the Lawrence A. Hutton Scholarship Award. He obtained his Master's Degree in Music from Temple University, he attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he was granted the Special Achievement Award and he received the Performing Arts Award from the board of directors of Tremont Community Senior Center, Bronx, New York. He is a member of the Dramatists' Guild, MAC and ASCAP. Contact him at TeddyFairchild@aol.com

MK Wolfe (lyrics) has written several musicals, including The Christmas Bride (book; with Noel Katz) which received productions at the Third Step Theatre in New York and at Foy Concert Hall in Bethlehem, PA; George Q (book & lyrics; with Darryl Curry) which was seen at New York’s Theatre @ St. Clements; The Freaks Club (co-book & lyrics; with Tom Adams) which premiered at Theatre Building Chicago and was workshopped at The Blank Theatre in Hollywood; and her latest, Mesmerized (lyrics) which had a workshop at the Women’s Club of Hollywood and is now ready for its first full production. Her short musical Sin is In was part of NJ Repertory’s Theatre Brut Festival. MK is also the author of numerous plays: Onlyman (co-author), Great X-ing, The Persons’ Court, The Creche, Climbing Everest and A Maid of Honor, all of which have been produced in New York and Los Angeles. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a member of the Dramatists’ Guild and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. 
Visit her website at www.mkwolfe.com

Mesmerized

the new musical

by Al D’Andrea
Darryl Curry
& MK Wolfe