RAY BRADBURY (Book & Lyrics) has published more than 60O short stories over a period of sixty years. He has written short stories, novels, screen plays, plays and poetry. His best known books are The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 45I and Dandelion Wine. He wrote the screenplay for Moby Dick for John Huston in 1953 and other films based on his stories are forthcoming. In the past several years he has published new books including Farewell, Summer, Somewhere a Band is Playing, From the Dust Returned, One More For the Road, Let's AII KiII Constance, The Cat's Pajama's and a book of essays, Bradbury Speaks, as well as a huge volume of short stories, Bradbury Stories. His latest book is We'll Always Have Paris. In 2001, he received "The National Book Award" for his contribution to American Literature, and in 2OO4 he was awarded "The National Medal of Arts" by President Bush and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he was made a COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS (France's highest literary honor) and was awarded a PULITZER PRIZE CITATION for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career.
STEVE JOSEPHSON (Book & Lyrics / Director / Choregrapher) Gallimaufry Performing Arts’ Executive Artistic Director is a graduate of the BFA conservatory program at the University of Southern California (USC). His association with USC extended for 20 years as he became Resident Director/ Choreographer and a Playwright in Residence with Festival Theatre USC/USA at the Edinburgh Fringe. For Festival Theatre he directed the European premieres of A. R. Gurney’s The Perfect Party, Christopher Durang’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Alan Menken’s Weird Romance, Harold Arlen and Truman Capote’s House of Flowers, William Finn’s March of the Falsettos, Kenneth Lonnergan’s This is Our Youth, as well as productions of his own works Tea & Crumpets and The Aspern Papers. In New York he wrote, directed and produced the Off-Broadway Musical Farce Some Summer Night which was a winner of the New American Musical Writers Festival. In San Francisco he wrote, directed and choreographed Tea & Crumpets which won the S.F. Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for “Best New Musical.” In Los Angeles he produced the wildly successful Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes and produced, directed and choreographed the West Coast premiere of Weird Romance. For Scottsdale’s Ensemble Theatre Company he directed productions of Loot, The Lonesome West and 2 -1/2 Jews which later performed in Baltimore’s Gordon Center for the Arts. For Fox Sports and Primeticket he wrote and directed the USC “Inaugural Sports Hall of Fame Induction” hosted by Frank Gifford which included his writing one of the last public addresses for former president Ronald Reagan. For Gallimaufry Performing Arts he has produced and/or directed a staggering 62 productions since 2004.
JOHN HOKE (Composer / Musical Director) As a session guitarist and singer, John Hoke has performed on movie soundtracks, commercials and albums in Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and London. Three songs he wrote with MCA recording artist Bob McGilpin have made the Billboard charts. John produced and played on the John Stewart album Bullets In The Hour Glass, featuring Rosanne Cash, for Shanachie records and has toured extensively in North America and Europe with the John Stewart Band. He also produced the new John Stewart album Darwin’s Army, featuring one of his own songs, on Appleseed records. He arranged and produced four albums for award winning Disney/Muppets songwriter Dave Kinnoin as well as playing and singing on numerous Disney projects including singing the title track on ten Winnie The Pooh videos. John has written and produced jingles and source music for Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Acura, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, the Cartoon Network and the television shows Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy. His own brand of rock, pop & roll can heard on his self-produced album Fortunato, on Homecoming Records.
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