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DREW FORNAROLA Songwriter, Playwright, Director |
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Oct 12-27, 2024: Cyranos Theater Company presents the Alaska premiere of Tilly The Trickster at the Anchorage Performing Arts Center.
Sept 30, 2024: Drew and Peter Mills perform an original song at the Prospect Musicals Gala at The Edison Ballroom for Muse Award Winner Kendall Crolius, an arts advocate, author and business leader. Tony Award-Winners Michael Arden and Baayork Lee will also be honored. Playbill.
Sept 13, 2024: Drew directs Starring Buffalo's Curtain Up! cabaret in the historic Shea's Buffalo Theater lobby, a unique and opulent space being adapted for cabaret for the first time. The show features Broadway's Marcus Paul James (In The Heights, Ain't Too Proud), 2 time artie award winner Michele Marie Roberts, Joe Isgar, and students from the Academy of Theater Arts.
Sept 4 - Nov 10, 2024: Ghost of John McCain premieres Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse. The cast includes Jason Tam as John McCain, Luke Kolbe Mannikus at Donald Trump, and Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Ben Fankhauser, Aaron Michael Ray, and Zonya Love, playing nearly 50 historical and cultural figures. Catie Davis directs with music direction by Vadim Feichtner.
July 16-17, 2024: Awesome Allie soars at the Wolf Trap Theater in Arlington, VA.
July 9, 2024: Drew joins as a guest teacher at Derek Gregor and Selda Sahin's "Wine and Sing NYC", an exclusive salon / masterclass series for emerging talent in New York.
June 10, 2024: Drew wins the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play for Fauci and Kramer at the 33rd Artie Awards.
May 28 - June 1, 2024: Drew directs TITANIC for Starring Buffalo featuring Diane Phelan (Into the Woods), Rodney Ingram (Aladdin), Jonathan Young (Pretty Woman) and Jay Dref (Sarah Brightman's Christmas Symphony)
May 9, 2024: Ghost of John McCain returns to New York for its second workshop featuring Jill Abramovitz, Major Attaway, Andrew Durand, Donnie Hammond, Graham Stevens, and Ben Jackson Walker. Direction is by Catie Davis with music direction by Vadim Feichner.
February 23, 2024: Drew's new play, Fauci and Kramer, about the unlikely friendship between America's doctor, Anthony Fauci, and playwright and queer activist Larry Kramer, premieres at First Look Buffalo through March 17.
February 20, 2024: Awesome Allie First Kid Astronaut runs at Theater in the Park in Shawnee Mission Kansas through March 9!
January 11, 2024: Drew and Scott's new musical, The Ghost of John McCain, has it's first New York reading starring Broadway veterans Ann Harada (Avenue Q) and Angie Schorer (The Prom) among others. Read coverage at Axios, Playbill, Entertainment Weekly, and Deadline.
November 2-5, 2023: Drew directs Starring Buffalo's SISTER ACT starring American Idol's Alyssa Wray, Tony Award-Nominee Sidney Dupont, Once on This Island's George Brown, and four-time Artie Award Winner Jenn Stafford.
Sept 30, 2024: Drew and Peter Mills perform an original song at the Prospect Musicals Gala at The Edison Ballroom for Muse Award Winner Kendall Crolius, an arts advocate, author and business leader. Tony Award-Winners Michael Arden and Baayork Lee will also be honored. Playbill.
Sept 13, 2024: Drew directs Starring Buffalo's Curtain Up! cabaret in the historic Shea's Buffalo Theater lobby, a unique and opulent space being adapted for cabaret for the first time. The show features Broadway's Marcus Paul James (In The Heights, Ain't Too Proud), 2 time artie award winner Michele Marie Roberts, Joe Isgar, and students from the Academy of Theater Arts.
Sept 4 - Nov 10, 2024: Ghost of John McCain premieres Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse. The cast includes Jason Tam as John McCain, Luke Kolbe Mannikus at Donald Trump, and Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Ben Fankhauser, Aaron Michael Ray, and Zonya Love, playing nearly 50 historical and cultural figures. Catie Davis directs with music direction by Vadim Feichtner.
July 16-17, 2024: Awesome Allie soars at the Wolf Trap Theater in Arlington, VA.
July 9, 2024: Drew joins as a guest teacher at Derek Gregor and Selda Sahin's "Wine and Sing NYC", an exclusive salon / masterclass series for emerging talent in New York.
June 10, 2024: Drew wins the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play for Fauci and Kramer at the 33rd Artie Awards.
May 28 - June 1, 2024: Drew directs TITANIC for Starring Buffalo featuring Diane Phelan (Into the Woods), Rodney Ingram (Aladdin), Jonathan Young (Pretty Woman) and Jay Dref (Sarah Brightman's Christmas Symphony)
May 9, 2024: Ghost of John McCain returns to New York for its second workshop featuring Jill Abramovitz, Major Attaway, Andrew Durand, Donnie Hammond, Graham Stevens, and Ben Jackson Walker. Direction is by Catie Davis with music direction by Vadim Feichner.
February 23, 2024: Drew's new play, Fauci and Kramer, about the unlikely friendship between America's doctor, Anthony Fauci, and playwright and queer activist Larry Kramer, premieres at First Look Buffalo through March 17.
February 20, 2024: Awesome Allie First Kid Astronaut runs at Theater in the Park in Shawnee Mission Kansas through March 9!
January 11, 2024: Drew and Scott's new musical, The Ghost of John McCain, has it's first New York reading starring Broadway veterans Ann Harada (Avenue Q) and Angie Schorer (The Prom) among others. Read coverage at Axios, Playbill, Entertainment Weekly, and Deadline.
November 2-5, 2023: Drew directs Starring Buffalo's SISTER ACT starring American Idol's Alyssa Wray, Tony Award-Nominee Sidney Dupont, Once on This Island's George Brown, and four-time Artie Award Winner Jenn Stafford.