The Gold :: A New Musical


		The Gold was conceived and written by Dr. Philip Yosowitz over a five period and completed over a decade ago. Philip teamed up with his daughter, Laura Yosowitz, founder of Vital Arts Collaborative and Arts with an Impact, as producer to develop the new work. In 2008, Andrea Lepcio joined the team as book writer. To date, they have taken The Gold from a four hundred fifty page, handwritten score through three development readings, demo recordings, special events and two productions in Houston, Tx. The 2009 production was held at Houston’s prestigious outdoor city venue, Miller Outdoor Theatre, seating almost 2,000 and was sponsored by the Miller Outdoor Theatre and the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University. In 2014-15, the team completed a major rewrite. We are thrilled to be making our New York City debut this summer at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in July of 2015.



		Philip Yosowitz (Book, Music, Lyrics) Phillip Yosowitz is a plastic surgeon by profession who has always composed music. Phil grew up with his Czech-born immigrant father and Hungarian-Romanian mother in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his medical training at UCLA and at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., and began his private practice in Houston, TX where he now resides. While Dr. Yosowitz's love for composing began in childhood, The Gold is his first completed musical theatre work. The story of The Gold was inspired by his love of athletics and his childhood memories of living with family members who were Holocaust survivors that had recently immigrated to the United States. He completed The Gold over a decade ago, which in its first incarnation was a four hundred and fifty page handwritten score. He has been thrilled to see the development of the work over many years, including numerous readings and two successful productions in Houston. Dr. Yosowitz is extremely proud to debut the work in New York City at NYMF this summer. He is a lover of history and is currently writing a musical based on Joan of Arc.

		Andrea Lepcio (Book Writer) Andrea Lepcio is best known for Looking for the Pony a finalist for the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award and for the NEA Outstanding New American Play Award. It was presented in a "Rolling World Premiere" Off-Broadway at Vital Theatre Company in New York and Synchronicity Performance Group in Atlanta and subsequent productions. Her plays and musicals have been produced and developed at HERE, Lark Play Development Center, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York Music Theatre Festival, New Shoe, Shalimar Productions, TerraNova Collective, Three Chicks, Titans Theatre, Vital Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY; Bloody Unicorn, Goodspeed Opera House, Hangar Theatre, Miller Theatre, Provincetown Theatre Company, Synchronicity Performance Group, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, and Trustus Theatre, regionally and Daegu International Musical Festival and The Little Theatre Group of Costa Rica, internationally. She is currently working on an EST/Sloan commission for a new play about the Montreal Protocol. Tunnel Vision will be produced at Off the Wall in Pittsburgh in October 2015. She developed Strait of Gibraltar and Dinner at Home between Deaths at Naked Angels and Lark Play Development Center. Me You Us Them was developed with TerraNova Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwrights Group and at the Lark Play Development Center. Central Avenue Breakdown (book by Kevin Ray, Andrea Lepcio and Dominic Taylor with additional story by Suellen Vance and music/lyrics by Kevin Ray) performed at the Daegu International Musical Festival and New York Music Theatre Festival. Andrea is a member of the Dramatists Guild and was the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program Director for ten years. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a member of BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop, the League of Professional Theater Women, New York Theatre Experience Advisory Board and an alumna of the Lark’s Playwrights’ Workshop and the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab. M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University. B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic. She Seal Cove, Maine and travels frequently. www.andrealepcio.com

		Steven Jamail (Music Supervisor / Music Director) Steven Jamail is an award-winning composer, arranger and music director based in New York City. He has penned the scores for The Lovely Bones and Nicholas and Alexandra under the direction of Tony award winning producer, Stuart Ostrow, at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts; My Life: Today at NYMF; and Steven’s own musical Vote! with Theatre Under the Stars in Houston. His original music and arrangements have been performed on Broadway, The Public Theater, and in a sold out solo debut at Lincoln Center. Television work includes original works for the 40th Birthday Special of Rachel Ray, music direction for The Apprentice, The Rosie Show on OWN, and a holiday arrangement for NBC’s Tree-Lighting at Rockefeller Center. He has soloed onstage with the Houston Symphony, the United States Army Band, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, jazz legend Chick Corea, and pianist/composer John Tesh. He has performed live on Rosie Radio (Sirius/XM) and recently arranged and/or conducted concert tributes for Chita Rivera, Cyndi Lauper and Queen Latifah. His original lyrics and arrangement of “Fever” were heard on the Oprah finale and featured Dr. Phil, Nate Berkus and Dr. Oz. He regularly serves as an arranger and pianist for Rosie O’Donnell, recording artist Dion Roy and, most recently, three-time US Figure Skating champion Jeremy Abbott. He is the recipient of a Youngs Fellowship and is the winner of the prestigious Envision Award for the Arts in both 2004 and 2008. Steven has been part of the The Gold team from the first reading through two Houston productions. He is delighted to see it finally arriving in New York City at NYMF.

		Michael Bush (Director) Michael Bush most recently directed the Off-Broadway productions of Bikeman, PsychoTherapy, Cactus Flower, and Based On A Totally True Story. Regional Productions include: Stormy Weather (Pasadena Playhouse, Prince Music Theatre), Other Desert Cities(Capital Repertory Theatre),The Sisters Rosensweig (Capital Repertory Theatre) A Christmas Carol (Capital Repertory Theatre), Murderers (Philadelphia Theatre Company, City Theatre), etc. He is the co-author and director of Leslie Uggam’s Uptown Downtown (Pasadena Playhouse, Capital Repertory Theatre), which won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best solo performance. He won the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence in Direction for the world premiere musical Hurricane. He has directed 9 New York Musical Theatre Festival musicals including The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The Piper, and Jonathan Brielle’s Himself and Nora. His second show for Leslie Uggams, Classic Uggams, premiered at New York’s premiere nightclub 54 Below in November 2012. In June 2013, he directed the world premiere of a new play with music about Judy Garland called Heartbreaker at the Adirondack Theatre Festival He is the former director of artistic production and associate artistic director for the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. He was associated with MTC for over 25 years and helped artistically guide more than 200 new plays and musicals, including the Tony®Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof and Doubt, and the Tony® Award winning Love! Valour! Compassion! He was instrumental in the rebirth of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Cabaret & Performance Conference, and served as its artistic director from 2005 to 2012. In his associations with both MTC and the O'Neill Center he has presented such acclaimed performers as Julie Andrews, Rita Morano, Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, Rosemary Clooney, Marilyn Maye, and Jim Dale and has developed over 100 new shows, revues, and intimate musicals including [title of show] and The Story of My Life, both of which were produced on Broadway. He is currently developing three new musicals: 40 Naked Women, a Monkey, and Me, Nightmare Alley, and Picasso.

		Lisa Dozier King (General Manager) Lisa Dozier King has general managed more than fifty professional productions as well as hundreds of special events in New York City. Current/Recent Off Broadway: Bedbugs the Musical, Breakfast with Mugabe, Final Analysis, F#%king Up Everything, Sistas the Musical, Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte, Ten Chimneys, The Duchess of Malfi (Red Bull Theater), How to be a Good Italian Daughter (Cherry Lane). Other favorite projects: Leave the Balcony Open (3LD), Milk (New Georges, HERE Arts Center), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD), Into the Hazard (Henry 5) (Walkerspace), Stormy Weather (Pasadena Playhouse: asst. director), The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Theatre Row/Stage 13), To Paint the Earth (NYMF), I Come For Love (NYMF), SA KA LA (45 Bleecker/Oslo Elsewhere), Jeffrey Hatcher’s Murderers (Emelin), The Piper (NYMF), Surface to Air (Symphony Space), The Polish Play (Walkerspace), Behind the Limelight (NYMF), Jeff Daniels’ Apartment 3A, The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (NYMF). Previously, she was the associate producer at Symphony Space and on the artistic staff at Manhattan Theatre Club where she worked on such productions as Doubt and Reckless. She has also been on staff at the New 42nd Street, Symphony Space, American Repertory Theatre and New York Stage & Film. Lisa is the general manager for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals and is also the director of the BFA Theatre Management program at the University of Miami.