PAMELA WINFREY’S theatrical pieces have been seen at such diverse venues as Alumnae Theatre (Toronto), SOMARTS (San Francisco), New Dramatist's (NYC), and Variations Theatre (NYC). She is a founding member of Mobius Operandi, an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble. From 1993-1997, she was a main collaborator (book and lyrics) and created five large-scale theatrical productions which explored a multi-disciplinary approach to performance: “Eating Eden”, “Scatterbrain”, ”Xibalba” and “Exit Vacaville”, which received rave reviews. Since that time, she has written lyrics for and performed in two Mobius CD's “What Were We Thinking” and “The End of the Dial”. She has received several playwriting awards including an individual artist grant by the Marin Arts Council (2003), a Sloan Grant (2005), and a career grant from the Marin Arts Council (2007). Last summer (2012), her play, “It All Leads to the Lemon Scene” received the Audience Favorite and the Best Actress awards for the Avant Garde Festival in Manhattan. It then went on to win a prize at the Method and Madness Festival in Denton Texas and was a finalist at Arts and Letters. She has a degree in theatre from Macalester College in St Paul Minn. and a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts from SF State. She is also a curator and senior artist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

 

Richard Jennings

 

Richard Jennings' original musical plays have been produced in New York, San Francisco and across the country. He’s composed over 50 musical scores for plays (over 30 of them Shakespeare) in theatres tiny to Tony Award winning and was Composer In Residence for Southwest Shakespeare Company for a decade. His work has been showcased in feature stories in The Los Angeles Times. Jennings is the recipient of the Hollywood Drama Logue Critics Award for “Outstanding Achievement In Theatre”. He’s composed for PBS, Disney, network TV and commercials. Jennings is a co-founder and principal of Musical Cafe, a musical theatre development and education program for Northern California-based writers and composers. He’s served on the faculties of colleges and universities and is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America. Please visit: rjmusic.org.