8/27/24 – We’re in Midtown Manhattan at Milliron Studios filming a test/demo of BOXED from our musical BREATHE. DP Tyler Milliron is shooting performance artist/gay activist Arthur Mann (played by Noah Ruebeck) as he delivers an angry rant at The Performance Hole, a storefront theatre on the Lower East Side in 1985. What a joy to be revisiting our musical BREATHE 28 years after its premiere in Provincetown! And to be working on this piece again with director Bill Castellino and actor Susan J. Jacks, as well as with actors Donnie Hammond and Robert Anthony Jones, musical director Doug Oberhamer, associate director Victoria Casillo, producer Judy Manocherian, and Tom Polum and Stacia Fernandez of Streaming Musicals. Yay!
7/27/24 – In the fall of 2022 we traveled to South Florida to interview an amazing group of residents at a continuing care retirement community. We spent the next 18 months writing songs and monologues inspired the life stories they shared with us, and weaving them together into a concept musical we call ELDERLAND. Now, we’re raising funds to rehearse and film a concert presentation of the piece. We welcome your interest in this project and we invite you to consider making a tax-deductible contribution HERE.
6/19/24 – We’re excited to share this short (50 second) sizzle we created for the new episodic animated series we’re developing with Betsy Alexander and All That’s Good Productions. Inspired by the true story of internet sensation Nora the Piano Cat. Stay tuned!
3/4/24 – Our latest collaboration with floral designers Claudia and Vincent Roux of Petit Jardin en Ville in Old City Philadelphia. They invited us to create a performance piece for their Tuscan Garden exhibit at the 2024 Philadelphia Flower Show. Isabella Tognini & Seamus Kirby play a young couple who meet and fall in love in the garden – one who speaks only English and the other only Italian. The music & lyrics are by us. The song is sung by Tommi Mischell & Dan.
10/25/23 – Biello Martin Studio proudly presents TEA DANCE 1980 – an exhibit of photographs by Thomas Moore of visual and performance artist Michael Biello (and friends) from the 1980’s. Also featuring new ceramic sculpture and collage by Biello, TEA DANCE 1980 celebrates queer history and art activism.
8/29/23 – With our fabulous creative team and cast at the end of an intensely productive developmental read/sing thru at Piano Piano NYC. Thank you for your creative generosity – bringing your passion and brilliance to our characters and songs. Stay tuned for news about LULU’s next steps …
7/3/23 – Listen HERE to our episode on Everyday Thin Places, in conversation with hospice chaplain Rachael Gallagher and birth doula Elizabeth Varaso. A one hour chat about how we collaborate to make art, music and theatre – and how our creative process dances with ideas about birth and death.
3/6/23 – We’re collaborating with Vincent & Claudia Roux from Petit Jardin en Ville for their exhibit at the Philadelphia Flower Show. New Sculpture by Michael and an original soundscape by Dan help tell the story of nature morphing from Winter into Spring. With pop-up performances by choreographer Megan Mazarick.
2/22/23 – At lunch with our dear friends and collaborators Betsy Alexander and Burnell Yow! We’re in the thick of creating a new musical streaming series inspired by their real-life piano-playing cat Nora!
