Brian Lowdermilk

Brian Lowdermilk is an American musical theater composer and lyricist.

Biography

Brian Lowdermilk is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is also a music director, arranger, vocal coach, and pianist.

Lowdermilk’s most recent musicals have been collaborations with Kait Kerrigan. Their collaborations include "The Woman Upstairs", "The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown" (with Zach Altman) and "Wrong Number". Lowdermilk and Kerrigan wrote TheaterworksUSA's adaptation of "Henry and Mudge", which premiered Off-Broadway in 2006 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. [cite news
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title = SPARE TIMES: Jan. 5 - Jan. 11; HENRY AND MUDGE
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accessdate = 2008-05-01] In one review of that piece, Lowdermilk and Kerrigan were called "perhaps the most important young writers in musical theatre today." [cite web
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title = Off Broadway: Not Your Grandma's Theatre - Henry and Mudge
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Lowdermilk has received a Richard Rodgers Staged Reading Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters [cite web
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title=Broadway prodigy hits the big time
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accessdate=2008-05-01] , and a Jonathan Larson Memorial Fellowship at the Dramatists Guild.

A fully staged production of "The Woman Upstairs" is in talks to be presented at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, PA, eventually.

Works

*"Battleship Ticonderoga" (book by Brian Lowdermilk and Marcus Stevens)
*"Cellular Passion"
*"Elliot and the Magic Bed" (lyrics by Brian Lowdermilk and Marcus Stevens; book by Marcus Stevens)
*"From Where I Stand"
*"Henry and Mudge" (with Kait Kerrigan)
*"Places You Never Called Home"
*"RED" (lyrics by Brian Lowdermilk and Marcus Stevens; book by Marcus Stevens)
*"Room To Grow"
*"Transient Days" (book by Zach Altman)
*"The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown" (music and lyrics by Brian Lowdermilk; book and lyrics by Kait Kerrigan; additional book and concept by Zach Altman)
*"Whatever It Takes" (book by Brian Lowdermilk and Gary Sunshine; book by Gary Sunshine)
*"The Woman Upstairs" (with Kait Kerrigan)
*"Wrong Number" (with Kait Kerrigan)

External links

* [http://www.kerrigan-lowdermilk.com/ kerrigan-lowdermilk.com]
* [http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=1385 Broadway's Next Generation: An Interview with Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan]
* [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/alumni/bio/lowdermilk NYU Steinhardt Bio]
* [http://www.talkinbroadway.com/rialto/past/2005/07_13_05.html What's New On The Rialto? Column on Kerrigan and Lowdermlk]

References