DOUGLAS LYONS
Concept, Book, Music and Lyrics
is an award winning composer-lyricist-book writer and actor. Broadway: Beautiful (Original Cast) and The Book of Mormon. Tours: Rent, Dreamgirls and The Book of Mormon 1st National. As a writer: Polkadots The Cool Kids Musical (Off Broadway Alliance Winner Best Family Show, Atlantic Theater Company). Five Points (MN Theatre Award Nominee for Exceptional New Work, Theatre Latte Da). Pete(Her)Pan (Pace New Musicals, Northern Stage) Commissions: '64 (The 5th Ave).
Upcoming: Beau (Adirondack Theatre Festival). With composer Ethan Pakchar his lyrics have played Lincoln Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Prospect Theater Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Seattle Rep, The Public’s Joe's Pub and more. He is currently in residence at The Directors Company and developing an original short film – “Click-Click”. @DouglasSings
ETHAN PAKCHAR
Music
is a New York City-based composer and guitarist. He is half of the writing team “Lyons & Pakchar” who were recently commissioned by Seattle’s 5th Ave Theatre. Their show Five Points received its world premiere in Minneapolis in April 2018.
As a guitarist, Ethan has played for the Radio City Orchestra, the house band of the Apollo Theater, and the Broadway productions of Hamilton, Wicked, Book of Mormon, Lion
King, and Dear Evan Hansen.
Josh
Rhodes
Director
Josh Rhodes’ work has been featured on Broadway, the West End in London, film, television, and in theaters all across the U.S. He has had the great pleasure of directing some of musical theater’s best actors and choreographing some of the dance world’s greatest dancers.
On Broadway he choreographed Cinderella, First Date, It Shoulda Been You, and Bright Star. He was also the choreographer of Sweeney Todd and Carousel on London’s West End.
His film and television work includes Company, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patti LuPone for Screenvision, andSweeney Todd starring Emma Thompson, and Sondheim! the Birthday Concert, which both garnered Emmy awards.
Mr. Rhodes has directed and choreographed numerous musicals and plays at New York City Centre Encores, the MUNY, The Asolo Rep. and The Old Globe. as well as choreographing for English National Opera and the UK tour of Doctor Dolittle.
CREATIVE TEAM
LEAH MICHALOS/MICHALOS MANAGEMENT LLC
General Manager
Broadaway: Chicken & Biscuits (Producer) Off Broadway: The Orchard, featuring Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Lucky Star, Oedipus: The Sex Was Blinding at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Renee Taylor’s My Life on a Diet (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Cirlce Award nominations), In The Pocket: Life of a Sideman with EMMY Award-winning director James Manos Jr., The Violin, Terms of Endearment with Molly Ringwald and Jeb Brown, My Parsifal Conductor, Butler, A Better Place, The Road to Damascus, On a Stool at the End of the Bar, Almost Home, Jericho, Murder in the First, Poetic License, The Best of Everything. Producer/ Director: Greek American Foundation’s GABBY Awards at Carnegie Hall, El Capitan (LA) and Ellis Island. Upcoming: Leah is also the Producing Director of The Directors Company. michalostheatricalmgmt.com and directorscompany.org
The StoryLine Project, LLC/R.K. Greene
Producer
SLP’s producing credits include The Lightning Thief tour, Farinelli and the King with Mark Rylance, Terms of Endearment with Molly Ringwald and Jeb Brown, A Time to Kill with Patrick Page, Tom Skerritt and Fred Dalton Thompson, Peter and the Starcatcher on and off Broadway and on tour, Mass Appeal tour, Room Service, Cougar The Musical, and Love Child by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton. http://www.storylineproject.com/