CREATIVE TEAM

LAURENCE HOLZMAN & FELICIA NEEDLEMAN (Book & Lyrics)

Laurence Holzman & Felicia Needleman are the winners of the prestigious Kleban Award for Most Promising Musical Theatre Librettists, ASCAP’s Sammy Cahn Award for Outstanding Lyricists and the Theatre for the American Musical Prize for Most Promising Book Musical. They have been collaborating on the book & lyrics of musicals for many years, after first meeting in Modern Drama class at Columbia College.

Their works include THAT TIME OF THE YEAR (music by seven different composers; Off-Broadway premiere at the York Theatre Company; Original Cast Recording on JAY Records), THE JERUSALEM SYNDROME (music by Kyle Rosen), SUDDENLY HOPE (music by Morris Bernstein & Kyle Rosen) and I MARRIED A WITCH (music by Larry Applewhite), as well as the children’s musicals THE HUDSON RIVER, WE ALL ARE AMERICA, and ALL THE SAME, with composer George Swietlicki. They are also developing three original musicals, THE WINDOW (Music by Benjamin Rosenbluth), ONE NIGHT (music by David Shenton) and MAKING ENDS MEET (music by Ian Brandon). 

Laurence and Felicia are both alumni of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and members of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. In addition to his work with Felicia, Laurence is the co-author (with Marc Goldsmith) of the original play and screenplay, THE QUEEN IS IN THE PARLOUR, and the original screenplay, FELLA. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School and a member of the Board of Directors of the York Theatre Company. Felicia toured in 42nd Street as a member of Actor’s Equity, and was a featured performer with the A & G Dance Company. For several years, she was on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center, where she taught tap. Her blog, UnwrittenRecipes.com, offering easy, delicious, family-friendly recipes, is steadily gaining in popularity.

BENJAMIN ROSENBLUTH (Music)

Benjamin Rosenbluth studied with Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Kenny Baron and John Corigliano. MM Juilliard. BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Composed music for AS YOU LIKE IT (directed by John Rando), HERCULINA (directed by Christopher Durang), SIX (“Composers and Choreographers” at Lincoln Center), MASADA (York Theatre), THE NECKLACE (West Bank Cafe Theatre), New Voices concert (Symphony Space, performed by Rebecca Luker & Judy Blazer). MD, Harvard Medical School. Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Chief of Radiation Oncology, Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, NJ.

DARREN R. COHEN  (Musical Director)

Broadway/Off Broadway: A CHORUS LINE, CHICAGE, FOSSE, Carnegie Hall w/ Michael Feinstein, MAKE ME A SONG (New World Stages - original cast recording), ZOMBIE PROM (Variety Arts - original cast recording), CARNIVAL, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE, A…MY NAME IS STILL ALICE, THE FANTASTICKS, AND THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND, NUNSENSE, SHOW ME WHERE THE GOOD TIMES ARE. Regional: Barrington Stage, Sacramento Music Circus, Center Stage Baltimore, Studio Theatre (DC), Goodspeed, North Shore Music Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, The MUNY, Kansas City Starlight, Asolo. Author: The Complete Professional Audition (Back Stage Books), and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. www.darrenrcohen.com. 

INTERNATIONAL RAOUL WALLENBERG FOUNDATION (Associate Producer)

The mission of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation is to develop educational programs and public awareness campaigns based on the values of solidarity and civic courage, ethical cornerstones of Raoul Wallenberg and other saviors of the Holocaust.  The  Foundation, which has offices in New York, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, is proud to be an Associate Producer of Wallenberg and is currently accepting fully tax-deductible donations earmarked for "Wallenberg the Musical".