Jeffrey Haddow
Book & Lyrics

Jeffrey Haddow co-authored the hit musical revue, SCRAMBLED FEET, which enjoyed a two-year run Off-Broadway at the Village Gate and went on to have numerous regional and international productions as well as a Showtime TV special w/Madeline Kahn.  Mr. Haddow is also co-author of the play, CHEKHOV IN YALTA, which had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and has subsequently been seen in many regional and international productions as well as on a Thames TV special starring Tom Courtenay.  YALTA won a LA Drama Critics Award for distinguished playwriting and appeared as a featured play in Otis Guernsey’s “Best Plays” series.  Both SCRAMBLED FEET and CHEKHOV IN YALTA are published by Samuel French.  Mr. Haddow co-authored DUCKS, a musical revue presented by Musical Theatre Works in NYC, and co-adapted and translated VALESA, a contemporary Polish play presented at the Mark Taper Lab.  Other produced plays include THIN ICE (WPA Theatre, NYC), SCULLY & ROYCE (Detroit Rep Co.), THE DRUNKEN BOAT (Circle Repertory Co., NYC), ONLY CONNECT (Galapagos Theatre Space, NY), and AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND (Book, co-Lyricist) which has had staged readings at the Village Theatre in Issaqua, WA, the Nat’l Arts Club, in NYC, and the Players Theatre in NY (all staged by Sam Scalamoni).  Jeffrey wrote the libretto for the original opera, THE LEGEND OF THE YELLOW ROSE, which will have its premiere this July at The Living Opera Company in Dallas, Texas. Jeffrey is a graduate of Northwestern University, and an active member of the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Sam Scalamoni
Director

Mr. Scalamoni has served as the Associate Director for Elton John’s Broadway musical LESTAT at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre and the Palace Theatre on Broadway. He was also the Associate Director of DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and also supervised the US national tour, the UK international tour and companies in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Seoul, Korea. He is also the Co-Book writer of his newest project in development, SUMMER STOCK a stage adaptation of the MGM Judy Garland Gene Kelly film. In New York Mr. Scalamoni has directed two incarnations of Alan Menken and Glen Slater’s new Broadway musical LEAP OF FAITH, the debut workshop of MULAN JR. for Disney Theatrical Productions, AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND at the Players Theatre and the National Arts Club, CAIRO at the Players Theatre, THE NEW PICASSO at New World Stages, TREATY 321! at the Lucille Lortel, FIDELITY FUTURESTAGE at New World Stages, and the premier of ATTACK OF THE ELVIS IMPERSONATORS at The John Houseman Studio Theatre. Regionally he has directed, and in some cases also choreographed, ALL SHOOK UP for Texas Family Musicals, I DO, I DO for Cortland Repertory Theatre, AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND at The Village Theatre in Seattle, four productions of DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in Montreal, Las Vegas, Illinois, and Oklahoma City, DRACULA at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, the premier of an original adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at The Rochester Opera House in New Hampshire, and the world premier of QUEEN ESTHER at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen.

Mr. Scalamoni is a founding member and Managing Artistic Director of The Skyline Theatre Company in Bergen County New Jersey. For Skyline he has directed THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG, A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/ A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, NUNSENSE, SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, LOVE LETTERS and HAIR. He has served as Artistic/Producing Director of The Hackmatack Playhouse in Maine, and as Artistic Director of The Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts in Orange County New York. He has also been a guest director at Yale University, Manhattan College, and Longwood College. A member of The Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers, Mr. Scalamoni lives in Morris County NJ with his wife Tricia, son Spencer and daughter Mia. www.samscalamoni.com