Bios
Michael Mejias (co-librettist)
My plays have been staged as readings, workshops, or full productions by the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, El Repertorio Espanol, New Federal Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and the Dramatic Question Theatre which I co-founded in 2009 to develop plays by BIPoC and Female-identifying playwrights. I’m both the recipient of the 2012 National Latino Playwrights Award and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting. I’m a finalist for the 2015 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, 2015 George Bennett Fellowship, 2011 Premiere Stages Play Festival, and 2010 MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition. Additionally, I’m a 2022 semi-finalist for both the O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference and the 2022 National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival. My work has been published by Simon & Schuster, Playscripts, and Stage Rights. I’m from the West Farms Housing Projects in the South Bronx.
Doug Silver (music/lyrics)
DOUG SILVER (Music/Lyrics) is a composer/lyricist, arranger, pianist, music director and music teacher from New York City. Full-length works as composer include Sidd (New World Stages) and The Greenwich Village Follies (Manhattan Theatre Source, The Duplex, and other venues around Greenwich Village). Currently in development: THE ROEBLINGS, with playwrights Michael Mejias and Andrew Frank. Doug’s music has been featured on cabaret stages throughout New York City and across the country. Doug is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He holds degrees in Music and Theater from Lehigh University and a Masters in Dramatic Literature from Illinois State University. He currently runs a private music teaching studio, teaching piano, composition, guitar, and music theory to diverse students as young as 4 and as old as 90. He has professional affiliations with The Nightingale-Bamford School and Steinway Pianos.
Andrew Frank (co-librettist)
Andrew spent the last three decades being an artist, personal coach and an executive who supports the arts community. In his twenties he was the founding Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Source. At that organization he directed, wrote, developed and produced dozens of new works and adaptations of classics. As an organizational leader, Andrew has held several Executive Director positions with: New York City Children’s Theater, Queens Symphony Orchestra, TYA/USA and LAByrinth Theater. Andrew got certified in Personal and Executive Coaching at NYU and founded Frank Ventures LLC an arts/artists consulting firm. Through this enterprise he has worked with hundreds of artists and created strategic plans for dozens of theater companies. Andrew’s artistic work includes: In Search of a Goddess – Ruth St. Denis and No Apologies Isadora Duncan. (New Duke on 42nd); collaborations with Doug Silver, Sidd: A New Musical based on the novel by Hermann Hesse (New World Stages) and The Greenwich Village Follies (Manhattan Theatre Source); New York City Children’s Theater’s productions of Young Charles Dickens, Love that Dog and The Traveler. Andrew attended the BMI musical theater workshop and was a producer on Lombardi (Circle in the Square).