Creative Team

TOM DIGGS (Libretto) has been produced at major regional theatres including East/West Players, Intiman Theatre, The Seattle Rep, and Moving Arts (L.A.). His play Harper Lee’s Husband was a part of the 2005 Pittsburgh New Works Festival, The Vital Theatre’s Vital Signs, and was a finalist for a Samuel French Award.  Five Wishes was part of Theatre Masters both in Aspen and at the Atlantic 2. Nu Shu was part of the Kennedy Center’s New Works Festival in April 2006. The libretto for The Fairy Hoax won the Aurand Harris Award at NETC in 2006 and was developed at PlayWorks, The Workshop Theatre, and TRU in NYC. In the summer of 2007, The Kennedy Center and The National New Play Network commissioned Fair and Decent, a play about the demise of The Fairness Doctrine. Fair and Decent opened the 2007-2008 Luna Stage season in October, and it was nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His play Mandala has been developed by The Lark and The Kennedy Center and was given a workshop at The Three Jewels. In the summer of 2009 Love in the Time of Reagan was developed in New York City with a Bridgeworks/id theatre reading, a Lark Roundtable Reading, and a reading with 24Seven Lab.  Milo at the Movies has been developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals, and Aurora Theatre Company. Tom graduated from NYU’s Tisch of the Arts in 2007. He was named a Dramatists Guild Fellow for 2007-2008 and has been a member of the BMI Lyricists Workshop.

MARK GAYLORD (Composer/Lyricist) is the author of Chatham Songs, a short music-theatre play produced in MCC’s Class1Acts series. MCC also developed his full-length work Birdwatchers, with book by Anna Theresa Cascio. His score of Far From the Madding Crowd, adapted from Thomas Hardy’s novel, was staged in workshop at San Francisco’s ACT Conservatory, directed by Carey Perloff. As a performer, Mark appeared in Stravinsky’s L’histoire du Soldat at Saratoga Performing Arts Center as le Soldat, a role he also danced with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Other stage appearances include Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Public Theatre, the Hal Prince revival of Showboat in Vancouver and A Capella Hardcore at MCC.  Regional acting credits include the Alley Theatre in Houston, Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland, Asolo Theatre in Sarasota and the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami.   He holds an MFA in acting from the University of Washington, a BFA in musical theatre from SUNY Fredonia and is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Workshop.  Mark’s songs are frequently featured in the weekly Tuesdays@9  reading series at Naked Angels.  His collaboration with playwright Tom Diggs includes two future projects:  The Omega Point and Saint Nicholas Inc.