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Research
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Monday 15 July
Tuesday 16 July
Instagram / Facebook
Copyright 2024 Music Theatre Futures
Hosted by Broadway Music Director, Arranger and Supervisor Carmel Dean, this insightful conversation will feature Australia/UK producer Maryann Wright, Australia/New York producer Neil Gooding and Glenn McGuinness, Head of Business Affairs at Michael Cassel Group. They will delve into topics such as creating and touring new work in New York, the West End and Australia, the realities of international touring, the impacts of Covid on business opportunities for musicals, Australia’s changing role in the global musical theatre marketplace and more.
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CARMEL DEAN
As a Musical Supervisor and/or Arranger her recent projects include the new Broadway musical The Notebook, with music by Ingrid Michaelson, and the recent Broadway revival of Funny Girl starring Lea Michele. Carmel was also Musical Director for the Broadway musical If/Then, starring Idina Menzel, and was Music Supervisor of the subsequent National Tour.
Her first musical as composer, Renascence, was produced Off-Broadway by the award-winning Transport Group and was named Best New Musical at the 2018 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. Her song cycle Well-Behaved Women, featuring powerful historic women characters, premiered to sold-out performances at Joe’s Pub in New York City, and subsequently received a critically-acclaimed run in Sydney, Australia.
Carmel is a native of Perth, Western Australia, and received a B.Mus. from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2001 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States, and subsequently graduated from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program with a MFA in Musical Theatre Writing. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Workshop.
Carmel currently resides in New York City.
MARYANN WRIGHT
Maryann is currently co-producing and re-developing Australian musical, The Hatpin, as an all-female, all-Australian cast chamber musical with Grace Taylor in the UK. Following a successful first workshop in July 2023 at the Royal Academy of Music, they were awarded a £30K Arts Council England grant in partnership with the Australian High Commission to produce a second workshop at Australia House in 2024.
In May 2024, Maryann and collaborator Grace Taylor will produce a Cultural Showcase premiering new Australian musical work sung by Australian stars of the West End at Australia House, for the Australian High Commission. This offers an important diplomatic opportunity to platform Australian cultural excellence in the heart of the UK’s theatre capital.
Other musicals in development include: Australian musical Dreamsong (May 2024 workshop and showing), Paper Stars (2024 development), and Bleed (new commission). Additionally, Maryann offers theatre consulting on a freelance basis, and is currently the development producer for The House That Dan Built, securing international festival tours for the company. She is a recipient of the 2023 Beam Showcase Bursary, and has completed various Stage One Workshops.
Maryann is in beta stages assembling an Australia-UK International Development Fund that will see mid-career Australian musical writers paired with Australia’s best dramaturgs and musical supervisors to workshop their musicals in an intensive development period, followed by a showcase to the UK theatre market. This is an important talent pipeline project to give Australia’s best new work the development opportunities needed to become international hits.
NEIL GOODING
As a director, Neil was nominated for a 2009 Helpmann Award and a 2009 Green Room Award for the Australian premiere of Gutenberg! The Musical. He has also been nominated for a Sydney Theatre Critics Award for his direction of the Australian premiere of Dogfight. Other directing highlights include the Australian premiere of Stalking The Bogeyman (Old Fitz Theatre), the World Premiere concert version of Paris, the World Premiere of The Red Tree, Church And State (Asst. Director - New World Stages), Passion (Arts Centre Melbourne for Life Like Touring), the World Premiere of The Hatpin starring Caroline O'Connor which went on to perform at the New York Music Theatre Festival (as Asst. Director), Truth Beauty And A Picture Of You and High Fidelity (Hayes Theatre Co); the national tour of Thank You for Being A Friend; as well as Side by Side by Sondheim and Diciasette (starring Mark Vincent)
As a producer, Neil's work internationally includes: Back to the Future the Musical at Manchester Opera House; the New York production of Handle with Care starring Carol Lawrence; The 39 Steps (Union Square Theatre in New York); Alan Cumming's one-man version of Macbeth which ran for a special 14-week limited season on Broadway; Church And State (New World Stages, NYC) as well as being a financial investor in the Broadway productions of It's Only A Play; The Empire Strips Back and The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes. In London's West End, Neil was a producer of the hit Australian play, Holding the Man.
His producing credits in Australia include: 33 Variations starring Ellen Burstyn; High Fidelity at Hayes Theatre Co; the multi Helpmann Award winning Sweet Charity (Hayes Theatre Co & national tour); Sing on Through Tomorrow (Matthew Robinson); LOVEBiTES (Peter Rutherford & James Millar); Love Letters starring Ian Stenlake and Rachael Beck and the original tour of Breast Wishes - a new Australian musical which went on to complete a six-month regional tour in 2011.
GLENN McGUINNESS
In 2010, Glenn joined Marriner Group as General Manager overseeing operations at the Regent, Princess, Comedy and Forum Theatres. Over the next seven years the venues played host to a diverse range of shows including musicals such as The Lion King, Matilda, Book of Mormon and King Kong as well as numerous concerts by local and international artists such as Madonna, Pink and Paul Kelly.
Glenn has also worked as a consultant to ticketing companies, promoters, producers and venues across Australia providing specialist advice on ticketing, audience development, programming and maximising commercial outcomes.
Glenn joined Michael Cassel Group in 2018 and is responsible for oversight of the Business and Legal Affairs of the Group across all markets including negotiating show rights, licences, co-production agreements, creative agreements and production agreements.