CREATIVE TEAM
ROGER GRIFFIN
BOOK & LYRICS
ROGER wrote the book and produced the New York developmental production of
After Happily Ever After at The Players Theatre. He wrote music, book and lyrics for Lights Out! produced at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Richmond,VA, wrote book and lyrics for Vagabond Kings, presented at Theatre Building Chicago, and book and lyrics for The Piper, currently in development with a recent reading at the Rave Theater Festival, NYC. He has appeared in both dinner theater and mainstage productions, directed over forty classic musicals and plays, and voiced numerous film narrations and training modules. Recently,Stuff and Nonsense, his recording of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poems, has been rereleased as an Audiobook. While based in Chicago, he produced and directed a wide variety of award-winning films and videos, including PSAs, documentaries, television commercials and business to business advertising. His documentary, The Arrest is Only the Beginning, won six international awards, and was seen on PBS and on Cox Cable. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and an investor in the development of Tony Award-winning producer Ken Davenport's Broadway productions of The Neil Diamond Musical: A Beautiful Noise, Harmony, The Griswold's Broadway Vacation , and JOY.
ROSEANN HAMMILL
MUSIC
Roseann began composing in early childhood, completing a collection of hymns at age eight. While still an undergraduate she scored The Green Thumb, a one-act opera for Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her musicals include A Holiday in Switzerland, The Lost Chain, and The Little Dipper, which toured two seasons with the Rosier Tent Show. Her vocal solo literature enjoys numerous recital performances across the country. A lifetime member of ASCAP, she is published by Interlochen Press and
Allyn & Bacon Publishing.
DOUG KATSAROS
ORCHESTRATIONS
Doug is an Emmy winning composer who has been conducting, composing, Orchestrating, arranging on and off-Broadway for shows like Footloose, The Life, Rocky Horror, Altar Boyz, Getting The Band Back Together, The Toxic Avenger
and A…My Name is Alice. He has written and conducted TV and film scores for Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Loggia and Sandra Bullock. He has dozens of gold and platinum CDs for artists such as Kiss, Sinéad O’Connor, Gloria Estefan, Frank Sinatra, Todd Rundgren, Rod Stewart, Judy Collins, B. B. King, Marlo Thomas (Grammy), Donny Osmond, Richie Havens, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Cher, Michael Bolton, and Peter Paul & Mary. He orchestrated Dee Snider’s Heavy Metal Broadway tribute, “Dee Does Broadway” and on TV, he garnered an Emmy nomination for his score to the animated series The Tick and wrote themes for The Jim Henson Hour, Mancuso FBI and the ABC Sunday Night Movie. He has conducted PBS’s Great Performances and the Boston Pops. He has written special material for Ringling Brothers Circus, Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks and their Thanksgiving Day Parade, winning the Emmy for Best Original Song. And yes, he is the guy who wrote "By Mennen."
