the golden record

Music, Book & Lyrics

Angela Sclafani is an NYC-based songwriter, performer, and theater-maker. Recently named a 2022 Woman to Watch on Broadway by the Broadway Women’s Fund, she has developed work at residencies that include The Orchard Project Greenhouse, Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB Artist Retreat, and Le Château de La Napoule International Artist Residency in the South of France. She has been a featured composer in Rattlestick Playwright Theater's New Songs Now series, 24 Hour Plays, NY Theatre Barn’s New Works Series, and Prospect Theater Company’s Musical Theater Lab. She was recently commissioned to contribute an original song to the new musical Notes from Now, which premiered at 59E59 this past March. Angela’s theatrical projects include her song cycle Passion Project: Love Songs from Women to their Work as well as her original musical The Other Side of Paradise, which premiered in Ars Nova's ANTFest. As a singer-songwriter, she has independently recorded and released three EPs of original music as well as a collection of reimagined Stevie Nicks songs. She is currently working on her first album release with the indie record label Pitch & Prose. Angela is a 2019 Fred Ebb Award Winner, a 2018 Richie Jackson Artist Fellow, and a 2018 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist. She is a two-time first-place winner in the Great American Songwriting Contest, a finalist in both the 2021 Unsigned Only Music Competition and the 2020 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and a semifinalist in the 2020 International Songwriting Competition. She earned her BFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.angelasclafani.com / @angelasclafani

Directed by & Developed With

Hunter Bird (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based maker of new plays and musicals. He has directed new work at Ars Nova, Roundabout Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The McKittrick Hotel, Signature Theatre with Columbia University, The Getty Villa, 59E59, Lincoln Center Education, NAMT, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Musical Theatre Factory. Previous projects include directing the World Premieres of Bronco Billy: The Musical (Skylight Theater, Upcoming London), XY (Village Theater, NAMT), The Laodamiad (Roundabout Theater Company, Getty Villa, Signature Theater), Tales of Life and Death by Craig Lucas (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe). As a developer, he’s helped create a number of original musicals, including Crashlight (Celeste Makoff), XY (Oliver Houser), The Imaginary Menagerie (Kate Douglas), and The Other Side of Paradise (Angela Sclafani). As a writer, he’s contributed to Lady Annabella (Peter and Pia Cincotti, Commission for Grove Entertainment), The Starry Messenger (Madeline Myers), and She Reached for Heaven (Oliver Houser). Writing residencies at Goodspeed Musicals, Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, and Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat. Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow (MTC, 2017 & 2019), The Civilians R&D Group (18/19), the Samuel J. Friedman Assistantship (MTC, 2015), SDCF Observership (2013), The UCLA Emerging Director Award (2011), Gilbert Cates Fellowship (2009), Line Producer of ANT Fest 2018 at Ars Nova, Colony Coordinator of the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals from 2014 - 2016, where he worked with over 120 writers on new musicals. Training: BA in Directing and Musical Theatre from UCLA; RADA (Summer Directing Intensive). www.hunter-bird.com