Playwright and Composer
Steve Stevens, Music and Lyrics: Steve is well known for his Composition, Musical Direction and Sound Sculpture for theatres in Colorado and New York. He has been nominated six times by the Denver Drama Critics Circle for "Best Sound Design" and won the award in 1987. Some of his notable works include City/Stage Ensemble’s LZ and Biederman and the Firebugs; Mirror Players Hamlet; Denver University’s Medea: A Noh Cycle; Columbia University Theatre’s Off-Broadway Pelleas and Melisande; The Changing Scene’s Alexander and Road; Denver Center Theatre Company’s Man and Superman; Robert Garner Attraction’s Forever Plaid; World Goes 'Round and the long running Center Attraction’s Always…. Patsy Cline; Mountain Stage Productions’ Jungle Book; and Albany Capital Repertory Theatre’s Don Juan; Always …Patsy Cline; Forever Plaid; Our Town; and A Christmas Carol.
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Bil Rodgers is a well-known actor/writer who has appeared in over 100 plays professionally, playing such roles as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Mr. Zues in J.B., Caliban in The Tempest and F.D.R. in Annie. He has also toured schools, theatres, churches and colleges for the last three decades in his solo dramas They Who Knew Him, The Evangelist and The Last of the Old Time Cowboys. On the screen, Bil has been seen with such stars as Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid (Switchback), Patrick Swayze and William H. Macy (Walt Disney’s Tall Tales) and Cindy Williams (Escape from Terror). He starred in the award-winning motion picture Moody!, and has participated in well over 250 radio and television commercials. As a writer Bil has authored several novels including Cult Sunday and Be Thou Pleased to Dwell with Me, both nominated for the E.C.P.A’s Gold Medallion Award. He has written the librettos for four musicals including Y’shua!, which has been produced in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Rapid City, and Denver. Joseph's Son (music and lyrics by Kenneth Cooper) is Bil's most recent libretto to be published (Encore). He adapted the libretto for Little Women - The Musical which has gone on to wide public and critical acclaim and was the 1998 Denver Drama Critics Circle award winner as "Best New Show of 1998
Sharlene Wanger, has directed at the
Town Hall Arts
Center, The Arvada Center, The Denver Civic Theatre, and The Shwayder
Theater
among others in Denver. She has also directed at the Nippon Kon
Theater
in Seattle. Among her many directing credits are Little Women The
Musical, The Secret Garden, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Annie
Warbucks, Jungal Book and Charlotte’s Web. She has an extensive resume
of Theatre for Children productions and was co-owner and producer for
Mountain
Stage Productions, a vehicle for many Children’s theater productions,
as
well as operating Centerstage USA for five years. With
Centerstage
USA, she toured extensively in the Northeast as well as the West Coast.
Sharlene was the producer of the Theatre for Children at the Denver
Civic
Theatre and is currently the director for The Cultural Classroom at
Town
Hall Arts Center. In addition to conceiving and helping to
write Little Women The Musical, she co-wrote, produced and directed
many
Industrials for the Just Say No To Drugs organization, honoring The
Colorado
Rockies, The Rocky Mountain News, and Channel 2 to name a few.
Her
acting credits cover many stages and roles to include The Witch in Into
the Woods, Arlene in Baby, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Grace in
Working,
Ella in Bells are Ringing and others. She has also done some commercial
and film acting. As a member of the Board of Directors at Town
Hall
Arts Center and on the Theater Advisory Board of The Children’s Museum,
she stays busy in local theater projects.
We can be contacted at:
Pieces Of Our Lives LLC
Denver, CO 80203
Email: stevestevens@littlewomen-themusical.com