Fiddlehead Theatre Company presents Talkbacks during A Little Princess

“We are honored that both
Brian Crawley and Andrew Lippa have agreed to support our production of A Little Princess by coming to Boston,” said Meg Fofonoff, Producing Artistic
Director of Fiddlehead Theatre Company. 
“This is such a wonderful opportunity for audiences to engage with these
enormously successful working professionals in the theatrical arts.  A
Little Princess is such a magical, heartwarming story, and we’re delighted
to premiere it here in Boston with the blessing of the show’s own playwright
and composer.”

Andrew Lippa Talkback:  Friday, November 29 –
Hosted by Jared Bowen of WGBH-TV Boston

Immediately following the November 29 performance,
Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa will take the stage, participating in a
talkback hosted by WGBH-TV’s Jared Bowen.




ANDREW LIPPA
wrote the music and words to the original theatrical oratorio I Am Harvey Milk that received its world
premiere in San Francisco this past June with the San Francisco Gay Men’s
Chorus starring Laura Benanti and Mr. Lippa as Harvey Milk. He also wrote the
music and lyrics for the musical Big Fish, which opened at the Neil
Simon Theatre in October. He wrote the Tony-nominated music and lyrics for the
Broadway musical The Addams Family as well as the music for the Broadway
production of Aaron Sorkin’s play The Farnsworth Invention. Other
musicals include the Drama Desk award winning musical The Wild Party
(book/music/lyrics), A Little Princess (music), jon & jen
(music/co-wrote book), Asphalt Beach (music/lyrics) and You’re A Good
Man, Charlie Brown (additional music/lyrics and arrangements). Mr. Lippa
was music director for Kristin Chenoweth sold-out shows at the Metropolitan
Opera House, Carnegie Hall and others. Accolades include a Tony and Grammy
nomination, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award, ASCAP’s Richard
Rodgers/New Horizons Award, The Drama Desk and The Outer Critics Circle Award.
Andrew Lippa is a graduate of the University of Michigan.


WGBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen is an


Emmy-winning reporter with WGBH-TV’s nightly news magazine program, Greater
Boston with Emily Rooney, and appears regularly on 89.7 WGBH, where he
covers the latest happenings in Boston theater, art, music, dance, and film
for Boston Public Radio and on WGBH’s Morning Edition every
Thursday. In February 2013, Jared debuted in his own weekly arts series, Open
Studio with Jared Bowen, featuring a blend of local and national stories
and profiles. Jared has won two New England Emmy Awards for his arts reporting
and is a recipient of the 2013 Commonwealth Award, recognizing achievement in
the arts, humanities and sciences. Jared began his career at Dateline NBC
in New York, and is a graduate of Emerson College where he also won several
Associated Press Awards.

Brian Crawley
Talkback: Friday, December 6

Following the Dec 6 performance of A Little Princess, Playwright Brian
Crawley will take the stage and talk about his career and experiences in theater.




BRIAN CRAWLEY is a playwright and
screenwriter. He wrote the book and lyrics for Violet (composer Jeanine Tesori), which was mounted Off-Broadway by
Playwrights Horizons in 1997, then remounted in a concert version in 2003 to
help inaugurate their new theater. For the libretto of Violet, Brian won the Kleban Award. Prior to the Playwrights
Horizons production, and on its behalf, Violet was given the Richard Rodgers Musical Production Award and an AT&T
OnStage Award. Afterwards, besides a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding
Musical, Violet received the New York
Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical over all the year’s Broadway
offerings, as did Paula Vogel’s play How
I Learned To Drive; the first time two off-Broadway pieces took these top
awards in the Drama Critic Circle’s history. He wrote the book and lyrics for A Little Princess (composer Andrew
Lippa), which debuted at Theatreworks of Palo Alto in the summer of 2004.



Brian’s plays have been
developed or staged at Lincoln Center, New York Theater Workshop, and the
Eugene O’Neill summer theater conference. He is at work on a commission for a
play about jazz performer Valaida Snow, and a new musical Down There with composer Lewis Flinn. He majored in Theater Studies
at Yale and got an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in
San
Francisco. Brian is a member of the Dramatists Guild.