joel adlen
Book & Lyrics
In collaboration with composer Leonard Moors, Joel provided the book and lyrics to Lucy's View, a retelling of E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View, The Enemy, based on Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, and Petrified, a full-length musical version based on his original play. As librettist and playwright, Joel’s works include Social Insecurity, Facing East, Magical Thinking, and two short plays, The Music Lesson and Petrified (a winner of the Rochester Short Play competition, MN, 2010, reprised in 2014.) Joel adapted Jane Austen’s novel, Emma, writing book, music and lyrics, winning the Los Angeles Elate Theatre Award, and an official selection of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. As co-librettist and composer of the musical, Tea and Crumpets, Joel won the San Francisco/Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award and the Festival Theater USA/USC theater award for Best Original Production, which toured in the U.S. and Scotland. Joel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
leonard moors
Music, Book, & Lyrics
Leonard has collaborated with Joel Adlen for many years on numerous musical theatre projects, including Emma, Lucy’s View, Petrified, and The Enemy. They have developed projects at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and CAP21 in New York, and at venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other works include the score for the musical The Fire of Roses, inspired by the books of George MacDonald, along with music for various film, stage, and industrial projects. Before his collaboration with Mr. Adlen, Leonard performed as a singer/actor in jazz, musical theatre, and operetta, performing in Europe, New York, and the Bay Area. He has worked professionally in the music industry and currently as a music editor for Packard Humanities Institute. Leonard holds a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is a member of The Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.
terry berliner
Additional Material/
Development
Terry is a New York City based director, choreographer, writer and educator. Her Broadway credits include resident/assistant director for The Lion King, The Sound of Music, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. Her work has been seen on and Off Broadway and in regional theaters and universities across the country. Current and upcoming productions include the new musical On Cedar Street (Berkshire Theatre Group), with book by Emily Mann, music by Lucy Simon and Carmel Dean and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and the stage adaptation of The Pianist (George Street Playhouse), by Emily Mann, with original score by Iris Hond. Terry is also currently developing the new musicals Suddenly Supernatural by Joel Adlen and Leonard Moors; and Dayle Ann Hunt’s new musical New World Comin’. Terry has written about new musical development for American Theatre magazine, Theatre History Studies, Theatre Bay Area, Asolo Rep., and written and directed original theatrical productions for corporate clients including Theatre Development Fund (TDF), Vanguard, Intel, Mastercard and the PGA. She is a member of SDC Society, the Dramatists Guild, and a core faculty member at Peridance Capezio Center in NYC. For more information, go to www.terryberliner.me.
elizabeth cody kimmel
Writer/Creator of the books
Elizabeth Cody Kimmel was born in New York City, and grew up in Westchester County, and later Brussels, Belgium. From a very early age she was a zealous reader, buyer, and admirer of books. She attended the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York and Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. (Love gothic buildings and intellectual stimulation? Go to Emma Willard! Go to Kenyon!) Because she is very sneaky, Elizabeth manages to work in many of her favorite subjects into the books she writes. Her love of Antarctica, ghost stories, medieval history, penguins, and writers can all be found representing themselves in various ways in Kimmel’s published books. Elizabeth Cody Kimmel lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley. Elizabeth spends her spare time reading, hiking, singing in the choir, rock climbing, putting Spray and Wash on the laundry, and trying to communicate telepathically with her beagle.
