ABOUT
Kait Kerrigan (words) and Brian Lowdermilk (music) made their off-Broadway debut with their adaptation of Henry and Mudge for TheatreworksUSA in 2006, now touring nationally. In 2011, they released their first album Our First Mistake, which charted at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. Other musicals include The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Tales from the Bad Years, The Woman Upstairs, Wrong Number, and The Freshman Experiment (www.freshmanexperiment.com).
The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown received a developmental production at the Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre in 2011. Their work has also been developed by the Theatreworks Silicon Valley, La Jolla Playhouse, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, ASCAP/Disney Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, York Theatre, NAMT, Penn State New Musical Festival, the Lark Playwrights Development Center, and Primary Stages. Additionally, they are recipients of a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award and a 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship and have held residencies at the Orchard Project and the MacDowell Arts Colony.
Kerrigan received the 2009 Kleban Award for libretto-writing. As a playwright, she has written Imaginary Love (Hapgood Theatre 2011) and Transit (Lark Playwrights Week 2010). She teaches libretto writing at Primary Stages. She is represented by Seth Glewen at Gersh Agency.
Lowdermilk composed music for The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog (Kennedy Center 2011) and Red, which received the Alan Menken Award and 2005 Richard Rodgers Award. He was the writer-in-residence at Temple Shalom, during which he scored a full Shabbat service. He is represented by Jason Aylesworth at Sendroff & Baruch, LLP.
Both are alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, co-founders of the digital sheet music company NewMusicalTheatre.com, and proud members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP.
GOrgeous new album. Can’t stop listening. Congrats