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ANYA TURNER (Actor-Singer-Lyricist-Librettist) and ROBERT GRUSECKI (Singer-Pianist-Composer-Lyricist) write and perform works for the musical theatre and cabaret. Their current project, "A Party With Turner & Grusecki" a CD recording of fifteen new revue-style songs was just released in October 2011. Together they have created two full-length musicals: "Greetings From Yorkville" (also available on CD), produced Off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse and directed by Thommie Walsh and Baayork Lee, and "After All", a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, presented in NYC at the York Theatre Company. Anya and Robert have also written dozens of modern cabaret songs and performed them at many popular Manhattan nightclubs. Two collections of their songs were recorded for Original Cast Records: "Anya & Robert: Ordinary People" and "Anya & Robert: You Loved Me". Turner and Grusecki’s songs have been performed by such artists as Karen Akers, Donna McKechnie, and Steve Ross at NYC’s Avery Fisher Hall, Town Hall, Symphony Space and the 92nd Street Y, London’s Pizza On The Park, and The Cinegrill in Los Angeles. Before embarking on their songwriting collaboration, Anya appeared Off-Broadway in "Cut The Ribbons" and "One Damn Thing After Another"; Robert served as pianist for Broadway’s" Grand Hotel" and "The Madwoman of Central Park West". Two-time Richard Rodgers Award finalists and Manhattan Association of Cabarets song-of-the-year nominees, Anya and Robert are married and live together in a fifth-floor walk-up in a neighborhood of Manhattan called Yorkville.