Madam President

An optimistic new Musical

Book by Gabrielle Mirabella
Lyrics by Jessie Field
Music by Lucy O’Brien
Directed & Choreographed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz

“i can breathe, and for an hour, not worry if my emails are blowing up your phone.”

Hillary’s Song: “Walking In The Woods” | from Madam President

Official Poster Art, 2021

ABOUT MADAM PRESIDENT

Amy, author of the best-selling feminist coffee-table book, “Madam President,” loses faith in herself and her country following Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election. Her intense sorrow, mixed with a bit of bad weed, leads her into her very own book. While inside the pages, she meets the past women presidential candidates she so admires, such as Victoria Woodhull, Shirley Chisholm, Gracie Allen, LaDonna Harris, and yes, Hillary Clinton. Can Amy find her way back home? And, even if she does, will she want to return? Madam President: An Optimistic Musical is a celebration of those women who have blazed the trail, and those who are continuing the journey.

THE CREATORS

Gabrielle Mirabella

Book Writer
www.gabriellemirabella.com
Gabrielle Mirabella is a musical theatre actor and writer. Graduate of the NYU Musical Theatre Writing Program, writing credits include: Finalist for the 2020 Theater Now 10-Minute Musical Festival at Merkin Hall with her musical RISE and Co-Creator of the Musical Women’s History Podcast What Will She Do Next? Both in collaboration with Ernie Bird. Currently, TNNY National Musical Writers Group with collaborators Bird and Field, workshopping their new musical Ren Faire. As an actor: Mamma Mia! & Elf the musical (National Tours) Regional Premiere of First Date (Straz Center) Professional Premiere of Bubble Boy & World Premiere of Stranger Sings! A Musical Parody by Cinco Paul of Despicable Me (Wolfbane Pro.) As a producer: Anything You Can Do: Concert Series celebrating new works for women (Laurie Beechman Theatre & Dixon Place, NYC) Graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. Proud member of Actors Equity & Dramatists Guild.
Jessie Field

Lyrics
Jessiefield.com
Jessie is an award-winning queer NYC playwright and director. She has written book and lyrics for many projects, including La Maupin (WINNER 2018 International MUT Competition, WINNER Audience Favorite – 2017 Fresh Fruit Festival) and Rachel (2018 JDT Lab Selection, WINNER Outstanding Musical – 2015 Fresh Fruit Festival, 2013 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best Original Play). Her TYA play, To The West, was a finalist in the Growing Stage’s New Play Reading Festival and the school play at Randolph High in 2018. Jessie served as the 2015-’16 Directing Apprentice at Capital Stage and has directed numerous shows in the Boston and NYC areas. She is a co-creator of the YouTube musical webseries Is This Art Now? A Musical in the Time of Corona and a co-founder of Root Beer Occasion Theatre Company. Jessie recently earned her MFA at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
Lucy O'Brien

Composer
https://lucy-obrien-music.squarespace.com/

Lucy O'Brien is a composer, music director, & pianist from Melbourne, Australia.
In 2020, she completed the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU, with assistance from the Australia Council and the American Australian Association.
Her numerous music direction credits include national and regional tours, with highlights such as Watch This’ Company (fortyfivedownstairs & Victorian tour), Room8’s Godspell, (Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Arts Centre) and Tony Bartuccio’s Menopause the Musical (national tour).
Her credits as a composer include Madame President with Gabrielle Burch and Jessie Field, Adventurers!, with Alex Higgin-Houser (2020, Underscore Theatre, Chicago), mini-musical The Fox, with Jamie Buxton (The Ceiling Project, London, 2019), Jack of Two Trades with Andrew Strano, (Pratt Foundation's Artist in Residence program, Monash University, 2017), and A Sharp Intake of Breath (Melbourne Fringe Festival 2018, Grassroots Initiative, 2017).

She is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, completed the Music Direction Intensive with Goodspeed Musicals (Connecticut, USA), and was awarded a Besen Placement with Malthouse Theatre.