23 and You and You and Me YOUR LOGO: (to change your logo image, use the X to remove the current image) TITLE OF YOUR MUSICAL: CREDITS: (i.e. Book by Jane Writer, Music by Joe Piano, Lyrics by Amy Poet): YOUR WEBSITE: (if you or your musical already have a website, include the full web address here, starting with https://) CONTACT EMAIL: (the email a producer should use to contact you about your musical PITCH PARAGRAPH: (a paragraph that gives a summary of your musical - to whet the producers' appetites!) Visual Text "23 and You and You and Me" is a paternity comedy, based on the true story of lyricist and librettist Dorie Clark discovering in January 2020 that her father was not, in fact, her father. The show explores, with humor and pathos, the nature of family secrets - and what self-identity looks like when everything has been peeled away. HISTORY/NOTES: (a spot to talk about what level of development you have reached, and/or what you are looking for next) Visual Text 23 and You and You and Me was performed at the Prospect Theater Lab Rule of Three concert showcase 11/17/2021. We are currently seeking opportunities to workshop the piece further. BIOS: (biographies for the members of your team) Visual Text Dorie Clark is a lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, and a winner (with Marie Incontrera) of second place in the 2021 NMI Search for New Musicals for <i>Absolute Zero</i>. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a producer of a multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz album, and a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> bestselling author.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <i>Absolute Zero</i> received a York Theatre Company staged reading in spring 2023, a Dallas staged reading in 2022 (as the result of winning a MusicalWriters.com pitch competition), and was a 2023 semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference. The show was featured as part of the New York Theatre Barn New Works Series in October 2023 and has received media coverage in <i>Forbes</i> and the <i>Harvard Business Review</i>. Clark has participated in developmental opportunities with Prospect Theater Company, Apples and Oranges Arts’ THEatre ACCELERATOR and the (late) New York Musical Festival’s songwriting workshop. Her work has been performed at venues including Symphony Space and Joe’s Pub in New York City. <span style="font-weight: 400">Marie Incontrera is a musical theater and opera composer; music director and conductor; and screenwriter living in Manhattan, New York. Her award-winning chamber opera, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Albert: Bound or Unbound, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">written with librettist Royce Vavrek, premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music New Wave Festival and was hailed by the New York Times for its “deftly woven jazz and gospel elements.” Her operatic works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, and across the United States.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">Marie has served as a music director and pianist for three works with Mabou Mines, in collaboration with late director Lee Breuer. She has also music directed several other opera, musical theater, and hybrid works, including Fred Ho’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Sweet Science Suite, Marat Sade </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">with the TWEED Theatre Company featuring Edgar Oliver, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Hatuey</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> at Sundance Labs, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">8 Songs for a Drag Queen</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> at Carnegie Hall. </span> <span style="font-weight: 400">Marie’s screen works include </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Two Anxious Bisexuals,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">A Very Queer Holiday, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">a holiday special. Both were written with Dianne Gebauer and Megan A Zebrowski. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Two Anxious Bisexuals </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">has been a winner of Best Short Script at Film Invasion LA, Audience Choice at Cannes Short Film Festival, and others. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">A Very Queer Holiday</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> was a winner at LGBTQ Unvordered International Film Festival, Vienna Film Festival, and others. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">A Very Queer Holiday</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> is a participant in the Sundance Collab Film Producing: Core Elements intensive.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400">Marie is a graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Intensive, taught by Patrick Cook and Frederick Freyer. Her first collaboration with book writer and lyricist Dorie Clark, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Absolute Zero, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">was a part of the Apples and Oranges THEatre ACCELERATOR development intensive in Spring 2021. Absolute Zero was an O’Neill New Musical Theater Conference Semi-Finalist in 2023, the Second Prize winner of NMI’s Search for New Musicals in 2022, and the winner of the Spring 2022 Musicalwriters.com Pitch Night. Absolute Zero received a 29-hour reading from The York Theatre off-Broadway in April 2023, and will be showcased on the New York Theater Barn New Works Series in Fall of 2023. </span><span style="font-weight: 400"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400">Dorie and Marie were in the Top 25 finalists for the 2023-2024 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. They were commissioned by the Prospect Theater Lab for the first ten-minutes of their second show, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">23 and You and You and Me</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">, which premiered in November 2021 at Symphony Space. Her Virtual Reality musical, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Parallel University</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400">, written with David Quang Pham and Malina Detcheva-Rossa, was developed with the Across A Crowded Room program at Lincoln Center Library. She received her Masters Degree in Music Composition from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Tania Leon. She studied privately with jazz composer Fred Ho.</span><span style="font-weight: 400"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400">By day, Marie owns a social media and digital marketing agency.</span> <br style="font-weight: 400" /><br style="font-weight: 400" /> AUDIO DEMO 1: (you can include up to three audio demos but please make sure they are MP3 and NOT .wav or .aiff) 1.-23-and-You-and-You-and-Me.mp3 AUDIO DEMO 2: 2.-The-Only-Gilmore-I-Know.mp3 AUDIO DEMO 3: 3.-Everything-That-You-Thought-You-Knew-.mp3 VIDEO DEMO: (if you have a video demo/trailer/pitch, include the full LINK here)