The Playbill - Walnut Street Theatre

Loss…; Hello Again (Drama League Nomination).West End: Carousel (Julie Jordan – TMAAward – Best Actress), The Woman in White(Laura Fairlie), Fiddler on the Roof (Hodel).Film/TV: 1408, all three Law & Orders.alexandrasilber.blogspot.com. For Emma.ERICH SEGAL (Playwright) was an Americanauthor, screenwriter and Classics Professor.He was best-known for writing the novel LoveStory (1970), a best-seller, and the hit majormotion picture of the same name. Love Story –the movie was nominated for seven AcademyAwards and Segal won a Golden Globe for hisscreenplay. Oliver’s Story, the sequel to LoveStory was published in 1977, the movie wasreleased in 1978. His other novels include TheClass, Doctors, Acts of Faith, Prizes and FairyTale. He taught Classics at Harvard, Yale andPrinceton, and wrote the screenplay for TheBeatles Yellow Submarine amongst others.Segal also wrote musicals, songs, and was adedicated runner—competing in the BostonMarathon 20 times.STEPHEN CLARK (Book and Lyrics) Bornin Nottingham, Clark considers Derbyshirehis home county where he went to TuptonHall Comprehensive School. He then went toDartington College of Arts in Devon and laterstudied with Stephen Sondheim at OxfordUniversity. Clark’s plays include awardwinningStripped (Circle Theatre, Chicago),Takeaway (Lyric Hammersmith and nationaltour) and Making Waves (Stephen JosephTheatre, Scarborough). His musicals includeEyam (Old Fire Station and The Bridewell),Forbidden City (Esplanade Theatre, Singapore)and The Far Pavilions (The Shaftsbury Theatre,London). Clark’s musical theatre adaptationof The Mahabharata opened at Sadler’s WellsTheatre, London before touring Britain. Hereceived an Olivier award for his lyrics forthe re-worked version of Martin Guerre forCameron Mackintosh, (U.K. and U.S. tours).Stephen also wrote the book and lyrics forZorro, (U.K. tour, The Garrick, London andFolies Bergère, Paris, Moscow).HOWARD GOODALL (Music and AdditionalLyrics) is an EMMY, BRIT, Gramaphoneand BAFTA award-winning composer of choralmusic, stage musicals, film and TV scores, andWho’s Whoa distinguished broadcaster. In the theatre hismany musicals, from The Hired Man withMelvyn Bragg in 1984 to Love Story in 2010,have been performed throughout the Englishspeakingworld from the West End to Off-Broadway, winning many international awards,including Ivor Novello and TMA Awards forBest Musical. The Hired Man had its Americanpremiere at the Walnut Street Theatre in 1990.In recent years he has been England’s first everNational Ambassador for Singing, the ClassicalBrit Composer of the Year and Classic FM’sComposer-in-Residence. He was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE) in the Queen’s 2011 New Year’s Honoursfor services to music education.ANNABEL BOLTON (Direction and MusicalStaging) Directing credits include: Marmaladeby Amy Rosenthal for The Old Vic TheatreCelebrity Gala; Musical Shakespeare adaptedand devised, performed at the AmericanAmbassador’s Residence and The Ritz Hotel,London for The Old Vic; A Christmas Crackerwith Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), RonnieCorbett and Kevin Spacey; An Evening at TheBox with Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey.Associate Director credits include: Hay Feverfor Howard Davies; Million Dollar Quartetfor Eric Schaeffer, Noel Coward Theatre,London; Deathtrap and La Bete for MatthewWarchus; Backbeat for Iain Softley, CitizensTheatre, Glasgow; Norman Conquests forMatthew Warchus at The Old Vic, London andBroadway; Complicit for Kevin Spacey at TheOld Vic, London; Speed the Plow for MatthewWarchus in London and The RecklinghausenFestival, Germany; Lord of the Rings themusical, London. Annabel has worked intheatre since she was 18 as a performer, StageManager, Company Manager and Directorregionally, in London and throughout Europe.DOUGLASS G. LUTZ (Music and VocalDirector) has conducted more than 125 productionsacross the United States and internationally.WST credits include Fiddler on the Roof,The Producers, Les Misérables, Carousel,Miss Saigon (all Barrymore nominations), TheKing and I and West Side Story, among others.Doug won the Carbonell Award for outstandingmusic direction of The Most Happy Fella at The