Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program current students Zoe Howard and Matthew Nassida (both cycle 32) will present their new one-act musical THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER at Irvington Theater's Arts Incubator Short Play Fest in late March 2023. The piece will be directed, musical directed, and partly performed by fellow classmates Nico Raimont (director), Matt Graham (musical director), Caroline Game (performer).
A modern folk adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s THE STORY OF A MOTHER — with a change of perspective.
Matthew Nassida is a writer, composer, music director, and performer currently stationed in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in musical theatre performance at Northern Kentucky University and is currently attending New York University for his graduate degree in musical theatre writing. His works have been accepted into the Cincinnati Fringe Festival (Scouts: A New Musical) and have been performed through Footlighters Inc. Theater on tour to small theaters in the Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana tri-state area (Precipice: What Took Us Over The Edge). He served on Footlighter Inc.’s play selection committee prior to the pandemic, received the ASCAP Fredrick Loewe award, and has music directed and directed several productions prior to moving to NY. He is currently working on two shows for his thesis at NYU and he will complete his degree in 2023.
Zoe Howard is a lyricist and librettist based in New York City. She is a current graduate student at New York University, earning an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing. Her work has appeared in The Onyx Review, the Voices & Visions literary journal, and fresh.ink. In 2016, her one-act play Obsessive Compulsive Destruction was a finalist in the Georgia-wide 44th Annual Writers’ Festival Contest, and in 2022, her short play Midnight Mirage was performed in DUAF’s 20th season.
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