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JANICE LOWE
Janice is the composer of Sit-In at the Five & Dime which has been presented by NYU’s In-One Alumni Workshop at Barrington Stage Company and by Voice and Vision at Community Church of New York. In collaboration with bookwriter/lyricist Charles E. Drew, Jr., Janice has composed the musicals Alice Underground (La Mama ETC.), Somewhere in Texas and This Esther (Chelsea Playhouse). Their latest musical theatre piece Central Avenue, based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, was presented by CityParks in August 2007. She is also the composer of Lil Budda (text and lyrics by Stephanie L. Jones). Lil Budda was presented in the National Alliance for Musical Theater’s Festival of New Works in 2002 and received a developmental residency at the Eugene O’Neill Music Theatre Conference. Janice is a resident music director with White Bird Productions where she has worked on Boro Tales Brooklyn and The Barbie Project. She also music directed Belly by Alva Rogers (New Georges) and This Esther & Other Musical Stories (Ars Nova). A long-time arts educator, she has taught creative writing and songwriting workshops in New York City and nationally. She currently composes new musical theatre pieces with youth in White Bird’s Creative Theatrics program. Janice has worked as a vocal arranger for several New York City bands and currently performs with the Afrobeat electronica group Digital Diaspora. Janice received an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts and is a 2003-04 recipient of the Dramatist Guild’s Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theater Fellowship. She is a founding member of The Dark Room Collective.
THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT
SERVING WRITERS. CELEBRATING THE HUMAN SPIRIT.