National Music Theater Conference - Fountain of You

Book & Lyrics By Tasha Gordon-Solmon
Music By Faye Chiao

When a thirty-something actress is suddenly aged out of the industry, she undergoes a wildly unconventional spa procedure to get her old life back. It sets her on a whole new path to pursue true power and equality... at a cost. This gleefully dark comedy takes on our obsession with youth and beauty—and the system underlying it all—with a pop-infused score and lots of blood.

Tasha Gordon-Solmon is a playwright, lyricist, and director. Her plays and musicals have been developed and produced at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals, American Music Theatre Project, the Humana Festival of New American Plays, Clubbed Thumb, Northern Stage, New Georges, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, The Playwrights Realm, Ars Nova, Theatre Now New York and the Colorado New Play Festival. Tasha's directing credits include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Brooklyn Museum, Boomerang Theatre Company, InViolet Theater, Pipeline Theater Company, The Tank, The Flea, The Brick, Dixon Place and the Fire This Time Festival. Tasha is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the Playwrights Realm Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Grant, and an AFO Solo Collective Residency. Residencies include The Millay Colony, Bethany Arts Community, Barrington Stage Company and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a member of the TNNY Musical Writers Lab and the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, and an alumna of the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group, Project Y Playwrights Group, New Georges Jam and Ars Nova Playgroup. She has an MFA from NYU and is a proud NTI alum.

Faye Chiao is a composer and performer of musical theater, opera, and concert music. Chiao has been honored with awards from the Presser Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and OPERA America. Chiao has also been an artist-in-residence at the John Duffy Institute for New Opera at the Virginia Arts Festival, the Boston Chamber Symphony, and a Labworks artist at the New Victory Theater. Chiao has also received residencies at Barrington Stage Company, Millay Arts, Bethany Arts Community and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Chiao's work has been commissioned, produced, and developed by Houston Grand Opera, Two River Theater, Syracuse Stage, Kenyon College, Manhattan School of Music, Prospect Theater, Playwrights Realm, Single Carrot Theater, Hear Her Song, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and the 24-Hour Musicals. Chiao is a member of Theatre Now New York's Musical Writers Lab, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, Maestra, and MUSE. Chiao holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. FayeChiao.com

Location: Rose Barn Theater - indoors.

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