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ELIN HAMPTON
Nationality: USA
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Elin Hampton's full-length plays, short plays, and musicals have been produced at The Greenway Arts Alliance, The Road Theatre Company, The Hollywood Fringe Festival, InterAct, ALAP, The Hudson Backstage, New York's The Duplex, and at the York Theatre Company. As a librettist, she contributed to "Princess Javasu," an opera currently in development. She spent many years as a television writer and producer, penning numerous shows, including Mad About You, Dream On, Pinky and the Brain, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Jackie Thomas Show, Rugrats, House of Buggin,' The Gregory Hines Show, The Wild Thornberries, and Baby Bob. She is a member of The Dramatist Guild, WGA, ASCAP, TCG, The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, and EST Playwrights' Unit. Gerald Sternbach (Music) As a composer/songwriter/arranger: "Heartbeats" (w/Amanda McBroom), "Mary" (w/Faye Greenberg) for the TV Land Awards, "A-5-6-7-8!" (w/Barbara Epstein), and music for Ringling Brothers. As an Associate Conductor: B'way, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Merlin," "The Tap Dance Kid." Conductor for the National tour: "Song and Dance," LA Premiere: "Les Miserables." Mr. Sternbach is a renowned musical director, musical supervisor, vocal coach and accompanist. In 2007, he was presented the Joel Hirschhorn Award for excellence in the musical theater by the LA Drama Critics Circle. He has earned nine Ovation nominations (one win), seven LADCC nominations (3 wins), and three Garland Awards. He was the onstage pianist for Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Concert, for "A Night with Mel Brooks" and for Carrie Fisher's "Wishful Drinking." He has worked with Marilyn Horne, Carol Burnett, Adam Lambert, Josh Groban, Sarah Brightman, Neil Patrick Harris, Nancy Wilson, Kelsey Grammar, John Lithgow, Florence Henderson, Donna McKechnie and Jennifer Hudson, among many.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Amother Musical Bells of West 87th, The Casey229 F4 Little Culture Teardown Things that Mattered Who's Your Mommy?Amother Musical
Take a ride on the 18-year-long roller coaster of raising a child one hilarious mishap at a time! Despite madness, messes, and the occasional nervous breakdown, the mothers at the center of this bright new musical have found that nothing is too much to bear. If you are a mother, plan to be a mother, have a mother, or even know a mother, this funny, poignant, and altogether unexpected musical delight will truly knock your booties off!
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book, lyrics and concept by Elin Hampton and music by Gerald Sternbach. Originally produced as "Mommy! Mommy! The Musical!. . .The Musical!"
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The Hudson Backstage Theatre, Hollywood, CA
2007
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Greenway Arts Alliance In Los Angeles
05 Sep 2013
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Paradise Factory In New York. 64 East 4th Street
06 Oct 2014
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in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2015 by Smith & Krause in January 2015
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Top of PageF4
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Following a devastating tornado Wallis spots a survivor. It is someone she knew in her youth. He sits in his rocking chair and seems unwilling to move out of danger
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1st Produced:
Hollywood Fringe Festival
2016
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Top of PageLittle Culture
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In an attempt to broaden the horizons of her blue collar husband, culture vulture Jane brings him to the theatre
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Theatre West 97th, New York
23 Jun 2017
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Top of PageTeardown
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A woman returns home after an eight month unexplained absence. To her horror her neighbour's beautiful Victorian house has been demolished and a modern eyesore is being put up
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Ensemble Studio Theatre, Winter Fest
26 Mar 2016
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Top of PageThings that Mattered
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Five beloved objects are shocked when their owners who are divorcing put them in a garage sale
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1st Produced:
Studio Players 5th Ten Minute Play Festival, Lexington, Kentucky
2016
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Four mothers and their problems. the tooth fairy forgot to come. the daughter who is starting college
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Music by Gerald Sternbach; lyrics and book by elin Hampton
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Festival Of New American Musicals
2009
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