Contributors

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Andi Lee Carter

Andi Lee Carter (he/him) writes in all media including plays, musicals, operas, and screenplays. He got his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He hosts a monthly cabaret called Verse Intro Cabaret at the Soho Playhouse featuring new musical theatre writers that has been running since March 2023. He was a 2023-2025 librettist fellow with American Opera Projects and member of the 2025 NYU Advanced Opera Lab. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Fish Out of Water Productions, a cross-cultural theatre collective created in Beijing, China in 2008. As a founding board member of Musical Theatre Factory in NYC, he has seen them develop hundreds of new musicals since 2014 including Broadway and Off-Broadway hits. Andi enjoys making short films, and he was a 2021 Documentary Intensive fellow with BRIC Arts Media. He loves all things sci-fi and he loves musicals so this podcast is a passion project in the works for many years. 

https://andileecarter.com
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Jonathon Lynch

Jonathon Lynch is a producer, songwriter, & music director. He is the creator, music supervisor, and host of the award-winning podcast, “Bite-Sized Broadway.” He was the music director for NPR's “Micro-Face: The Musical!” He was assistant music director & copyist for Finding Neverland (pre-Broadway workshop), and music director for The Giant Hoax, The City Club, & Powerline Road (off-Broadway). He is the songwriter of The Carousel of Inevitability and Certain Foreboding (w/ Freeman & Varod), inaugural winner of the NYPL for the Performing Arts' Musical Theatre Writing Fellowship; the award-winning The Baroque Cycle (Winterfest '22); and Peter & the Pied Piper (Lincoln Center '22 w/ Galvan). He is faculty music director at American Musical and Dramatic Academy & 92NY, a writer in Theatre Now New York's Musical Theatre Writers Lab, a composer in the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriting Workshop, and an alum of Northwestern University. 

http://jonathonlynchmusic.com

Guests

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David Rigano

David is a NYC based playwright and director specializing in new musicals. With his brother Paul he has written Awaken: a Sleeping Beauty musical, Get the Duchess, We Were Wild, You Heard It Here (NY Winterfest Best Musical Score). He wrote The Holy Cows of Credence South Dakota and Facing East with frequent collaborator Mark-Eugene Garcia. David directed Wild Women of Planet Wongo, All Star: the Best Broadway Musical, Nutcracker! the musical, and his own award-winning You Heard It Here. His plays include What We Deserve (Next Stage Press), Not the Same Old Story & Life Lessons with Susan Gail (both Wide-Eyed Winks semi-finalists), and more. David co-hosts the official Drama Book Shop podcast with Mark-Eugene Garcia.

https://www.riganosongbook.com

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Paul Rigano

Paul Rigano is a composer, arranger, and music director, and the half of the Rigano Songbook that's more often sitting at the keys. As a pianist, he's gotten to tickle the ivories all over the world, including New York, Chicago, Texas, California, Italy, France, and Spain, mostly working on theatrical projects. Favorites include the world premiere of Be More Chill at Two River Theatre, Broadway Bounty Hunter at Barrington Stage, and sailing around the Mediterranean Sea as a dueling pianist aboard the MSC Seashore. On Broadway, he's served multiple roles in the music departments of the recent revivals of West Side Story, The Music Man, and Funny Girl. His arrangements can be heard on Ian Brodsky’s second album, Friendly Neighborhood Something or Other. He is very fortunate to get to make a lot of art that he's proud of with people he's proud to know.

https://www.riganosongbook.com

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