ABOUT THE AUTHORS
 KATHLEEN
CAHILL (book and lyrics) awards include the
Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award (for her musical,
DAKOTA SKY) and recently, a Jane Chambers Honorable
Mention (for her play, CHARM) two Connecticut Commission
on the Arts Playwrighting Awards, a Massachusetts Artists
Foundation Award, a Rockefeller Grant, a National Endowment
for the Arts New American Works Grant, and a Drama League
Award. With composer Michael Wartofsky she wrote the
book and lyrics for The Navigator, a musical
about love, history and time, which was recently performed
in concert at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Songs
from The Navigator were recently heard in New
York City at the Miss New York Festival, and at Dreamlight
Theatre Company’s Bright Lights Showcase at the
Triad. (The song, All The Possibilities, can
be heard on the new CD by The Broadway Boys.) With Michael
Wartofsky she also wrote Friendship of the Sea
that toured for two seasons with the North Shore Music
Theatre Educational Outreach Program. With composer
Deborah Wicks Lapuma she wrote Dakota Sky,
about single women homesteaders in the last American
land rush, (Olney Theatre; Norris Theatre, L.A.). Other
musical works include Clara, an opera about
Clara Schumann (Maryland Center for the Arts) Water
on the Moon -with Deborah Wicks Lapuma (Voice of
America radio play) Fatal Song (Maryland Center
for the Performing Arts) A Tale of Two Cities: Paris
and Berlin in the Twenties (also Maryland Center
for the Performing Arts.) Plays include The Still
Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago)
the comedy, Women Who Love Science Too Much
(Porchlight Theatre) and Henri Louise and Henry
(Cleveland Public). Her play, Charm, was
workshopped at the Lark Theatre Playwrights Week, Icicle
Creek Theatre Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Playfest
2009, and will receive a workshop production at Orlando
Shakespeare in November 2009. Salt Lake Acting Company
will produce the world premiere of Charm in
April 2010. Her screenplay, Downtown Express,
written for David Grubin Productions staring the unique
singer/songwriter Nellie McKay and the international
violin soloist Philippe Quint, is currently in development.
Ms. Cahill received an MFA in Writing for Music-Theatre
from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a BA
in English Literature from Northeastern University.
She works as writer/ senior editor for Masterpiece on
PBS, and is currently Visiting Professor in the Department
of Theatre at the University of Utah.
DEBORAH WICKS LA PUMA (music)
- see her bio page
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