ALAN CANCELINO (music)

ALAN CANCELINO is a NYC based composer working in many styles of music. In collaboration with Jenne Wason, his recent shows include Bingo City, developed in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop under moderator Maury Yeston and featured on Theatre Row in a New York Musical Theater Festival 2005 showcase directed by Leigh Silverman. And the daring new musical drama The White Rose which has had readings and workshops under the direction of Leah C. Gardiner at The Public Theater in NYC, Wright State University in Ohio, and presented in concert form at the inaugural New York Musical Theater Festival in 2004 at The Tank. He also collaborated with Wason on the relationship musical The Terrifying Prospect of Marriage and All It Entails! which premiered at The Player’s theatre in New York. Other collaborations and more recent works include the short musical Party Lines by Winter Miller which premiered in the 2006 Ignite festival at the Ohio Theatre in SoHo. And music for the Edward Albee award winning play Kansas Faust by Anne Phelan.

In early 2007 he scored the Japanese film Sight Unseen and is currently working on a cabaret show What's The Point?!  with Hector Coris that premiered February 2008 in NYC for a limited run and ran again in September and was also presented at the 2008 Harvest International Theatre Festival in Montreal. The show was also produced by the Know Theatre in Cincinnati. Alan has recently started writing a new musical Flake of Snow in collaboration with lyricist Mark Garcia and was chosen to participate in Project Footlight 2009. And is happy to announce his show The White Rose will have another reading at the York Theatre in March 2009.

Aside from theatre, Alan is slowly inching his way back into film scoring which was his concentration at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he was a recipient of the Chick Corea prize for a promising young composer.And as a pianist had the privilege of studying and performing with Maestro “Slava” Rostropovich. He is working on a recording of original ballads and a collection of piano ensemble pieces. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and an alumnus of the Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop at BMI. His work has been seen at The Public Theater, New Dramatists, NYMF,BMI, The Tank, Theatre Row, The Laurie Beechman and regionally at the National Gallery in Canada, Player's Theatre, The Know Theatre and many more.

JENNE WASON (book & lyrics)

JENNE WASON has written the book and lyrics for several musicals in collaboration with composer Alan Cancelino.  Their comedic road trip musical Bingo City played on Theatre Row as part of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival and their dramatic work The White Rose was featured in NYMF in 2004. The White Rose also had a 2004 workshop production at Ohio’s Wright State University and its premiere reading at the Public Theater, both under the direction of Leah C. Gardiner. Cancelino & Wason have also collaborated on the relationship musical The Terrifying Prospect of Marriage and all that it Entails. Some of Jenne's shorter works include: The Thousand-and-Second Tale with music by Gregory G. Allen and The Connection with music by Michael Talarczyk.

Jenne  and Alan recently created the campaign theme song for United Way of Chatham-Kent. Their songs have been performed in various New York cabaret venues and at Canada's National Arts Centre and National Gallery. Jenne graduated from New York University with a BFA in Drama/Dramatic Writing, trained with David Bucknam at Playwrights Horizons, and is an alumnus of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She teaches both Lyric and Dramatic Writing at the Thames Institute of the Arts at St. Clair College and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.