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PRODUCTION HISTORY
“Sunfish” was originally developed and workshopped under the title, “The Story of Aheh,” in the New York University Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
May 4, 2004: First public reading, NYU Black Box Theatre.
January 2005: Cooper and Kim win the 2005 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award.
February 2005: World Premiere Student Production, Yale University Off-Broadway Theatre.
March 2005: Recipient of the Daryl Roth Award, featured as part of the NYU Fresh Look Series. Directed by Nick Corley, Musical Direction by Josh Salzman.
May 2005: Selected for a two-week workshop at New York University’s Tisch Graduate Acting Department, as part of the Write Act Festival of New Work. Directed by Lonny Price, Musical Direction by John DiPinto.
November 2005: Received the Daniel Marshall Multicultural Award for Non-Traditional Musical Theatre; selected for TRU Voices New Musical Reading Series.
December 2005: Staged Reading, Blue Heron Theatre (TRU New Voices Musical Reading Series). Produced by Eva Price, Directed by Ben Rimalower, Musical Direction by Jasper Grant.
April 2006: Staged Reading, Alliance Theatre, GA.
Directed by Kent Gash. Musical Direction by Michael Faust. Kendeda Playwriting Competition Finalist.
October 2006: Showcased at the National Alliance For Musical Theatre’s 18th Annual Festival of New Musicals, New World Stages, NYC. Directed by Stafford Arima, Musical Staging by Patricia Wilcox, Musical Direction by Jesse Vargas.
January 2007: Roundtable Reading at the Lark Play Development Center, NYC.
Directed by Daniella Topol.
June 2007: Workshop Production at SUNY Cortland University, Cortland NY.
Directed by Darren Katz.
Songs from “Sunfish” have also been featured in “A Beat Ahead,” Any Minute Now’s New Writers Cabaret (at the Triad Theatre, NYC), the Lila Theatre’s New Voices Cabaret Series (San Francisco), and in the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s “New From NYU” Cabaret Series.
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