THE TEAM
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Tidtaya Sinutoke (ฑิตยา สินุธก) is a Jonathan Larson Grant, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, and Fred Ebb Award-winning musical theatre composer and writer. Theatre credits: HALF THE SKY (The 5th Avenue Theatre's First Draft Commission & 20/21 Digital Season); SUNWATCHER (The Civilians R&D Group); DEAR MR. C (Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative Award, Polyphone Festival); THE ADVENTURES OF SKY AND FRIENDS (New Victory Theater's LabWorks); and LITTLE DUGONG AND HER SEAGRASS SONG (American Opera Project). Her works have been developed and supported by the Composer-Librettists Studio at New Dramatists, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, New Victory LabWorks, Johnny Mercer Foundation, NYFA IAM Mentoring Program, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Kurt Weill Foundation, Drama League, Tofte Lake Center, Loghaven Artist Residency, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. MFA: NYU.
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Isabella Dawis is a Filipina-American theatermaker and musician from Minneapolis. She is the recipient of the Kleban Prize for librettists, the Fred Ebb Award, the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, and the Coalition of Asian American Leaders Ignite Fund. In addition to SUNWATCHER, her writing includes HALF THE SKY (Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award; 5th Avenue Theatre First Draft Commission and audio production, bookwriter/lyricist), BEFORE THE LAST METER (Atlanta Opera, librettist), and TWELFTH NIGHT (Ten Thousand Things, composer). Her work has been developed at Theater Latte Da, Theater Mu, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Musical Theatre Factory, Goodspeed Musicals, Berkeley Repertory Theater, the American Opera Project, the Civilians, and more. Isabella is the founder of the Twin Cities arts/media company Sansrival.
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Ikumi Kuronaga is a London-based producer working across stage and screen. With her background living in Syria, Japan, the Philippines, Brazil, France, the U.S., and the U.K., she has a passion for producing culturally diverse stories for a global audience. After lead producing 10 musicals and plays at Avex Entertainment, she moved to NYC and worked at some Broadway offices including Alchemation and Jujamcyn Theaters. Ikumi also developed films and scripted tv shows at Amazon Studios and worked alongside Anne Thomopoulos, Co-Head of Legendary Global, assessing and developing international scripted TV pitches and scripts. She is currently developing and producing film, scripted tv, and musical projects for Sony Music Entertainment Japan Inc. Recent producing credits: Tokyo Vice S2 starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe (Max) and A Night at the Kabuki with music by Queen and written and directed by Hideki Noda (Sadler's Wells Theatre). MFA Theatre Management and Producing at Columbia University.
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