Queen of the Bohemian Dream

MICHAEL J. BOBBITT (Director/Choreographer)

Is one of the DC area’s busiest triple threats: director/choreographer/librettist. Directing credits include MULAN, J. (Disney, Kennedy Center), the world premiere of PETITE ROUGE (Imagination Stage and the 2007 NYMTF ), PIPPIN (Imagination Stage),  A CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE (Blues Alley); TIGERS, DRAGONS AND OTHER WISE TAILS, BLACK DIAMOND,  HOW OLD IS A HERO? (Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater). His choreography is regularly seen on area stages including Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theater, Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth, Imagination Stage and Studio Theatre.  Michael has written four musicals with composer Dr. John L. Cornelius, II. SAY IT AIN’T SO! was accepted in the 2006 NYC International Fringe Festival.  BINGO LONG has been chosen to take part in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Producer-Writer Initiative and, Theatre Under the Stars (producer) will develop BINGO LONG.  THE STEPHEN SCHWARTZ PROJECT, a New Musical revue conceived, directed and choreographed by Michael will receive it’s World Premiere at Metro Stage in 2008.  Michael assumes the post of Artistic Director of Adventure Theater this summer.  

DARIUS SMITH (Music Director)

Darius serves as a professor of musical theater for Howard University and director of Standing Room Only:  The Howard University Musical Theater Ensemble.  He also has served as musical director for several area organizations, productions, and readings, including City @ Peace (DC), SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD(Towson, MD), BINGO LONG(Kennedy Center), SAY IT AIN’T SO(Silver Spring, MD) and The Children’s Theater Workshop (DC).  An alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, Darius has written music and lyrics for  R/J:  The Fatal Tour (commissioned by the Lincoln Theater), AMOROUS RUMINATIONS: A song cycle and BREAKS (book and lyrics by Jermaine Hardy).  He is currently writing book, music and lyrics for two new musicals, UGLY GEENA and PERFECT.   

LORRAINE TREANOR (Producer)

The idea for this show was conceived in a closet in Fran’s home in London’s West End home where Lorraine found herself surrounded by Fran’s numerous books of poetry, her press clippings and books about the Beat generation (Fran and her husband Jay Landesman’s lifetime together began with the early Greenwich Village scene.)  It wasn’t until Lorraine met Michael J. Bobbitt that she knew she had found a director who could bring Fran’s songs to life.  Lorraine is also editor of DCTheatreScene.com