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A piece of me by carner and gregor
Carner and Gregor are an American musical theatre songwriting duo consisting of Sam Carner and Derek Gregor. They are the recipients of a 2004 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for their musical Unlock'd. The team has collaborated since 2002, with Carner working as the lyricist and Gregor as the composer. They reside and work in New York City.
Contents
- A piece of me by carner and gregor
- The lincoln center crystal ball sees carner and gregor in broadway s future
- Early lives
- Partnership
- Unlockd
- Island Song
- Other works
- Popular songs
- Awards
- References
The lincoln center crystal ball sees carner and gregor in broadway s future
Early lives
Samuel Carner attended Yale University as an undergraduate, where his play Just Call Me Eli won the Yale Dramatic Association's John Golden Prize for Best Student-Written Musical in 2000. He graduated in 2001 and enrolled in New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program with a Departmental Fellowship.
Derek Gregor graduated from Skidmore College in 2000. The next year, he started the rock band M-Lab, for which he was the keyboardist from 2001–2011.
Partnership
Carner and Gregor met at New York University when they partnered together for a project. They have collaborated ever since.
Unlock'd
Based on Alexander Pope's mock-heroic narrative poem The Rape of the Lock, Unlock'd is a two-act musical that takes place in 18th century England. It focuses on the romantic entanglements of four main characters and the chaos that ensues after a lock of the vain and beautiful Belinda's hair goes missing.
The team received a Richard Rodgers Award for Unlock'd in 2004. The show went on to win "Best in Fest" at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2007, as well as two Talkin' Broadway Summer Theatre Festival Citations. Unlock'd was also featured at the TheatreWorks New Works Festival in Palo Alto, California, and the Ravinia Festival outside of Chicago.
Unlock'd, presented by the Prospect Theater Company, opened Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street on June 16, 2013. The show was scheduled to run through July 13 but was extended to July 20, 2013. The show was directed and choreographed by Marlo Hunter, who won the Joe A. Callaway Award for her musical staging of the production, and starred Jillian Gottlieb as Belinda, Jennifer Blood as Clarissa, Sydney James Harcourt as Roderick Shearing (the Baron), A.J. Shively as Edwin, Maria Couch as Esther, Catherine LeFrere as Avia, Chris Gunn as Umbriel, Adam Daveline as Caleb, Chandler Reeves as Ariella, Hansel Tan as Barney, Emily Rogers as The Maid, and Lukas Poost as The Gardener.
Island Song
Telling the story of five contemporary New Yorkers as they pursue their passions, resist distraction, and live out a "twisted love affair" with the city, "Island Song captures every urbanite's triumphs, disappointments, and ever-tested perspective."
The musical had workshops at Princeton University and Western Carolina University in 2012 and Seattle's Balagan Theater and the Indiana Festival of Theater in 2013. It had a workshop production at the Bloomington Playwrights Project in January and February 2014. Island Song has had concert presentations at (le) Poisson Rouge in New York, Crawfish in Tokyo, the St. James Studio in London, and the Comedie Nation in Paris.
A production of island song is to be performed by rose bruford students at the Stratford circus theatre March 2017, directed by Ian Reekie.
Other works
In 2009, a cabaret of Carner and Gregor songs, Sing, But Don't Tell, was presented at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The cast of the Broadway revival of HAIR performed a concert of their songs in February 2010 entitled BUZZED. A concert of their songs, again called Sing, But Don't Tell, was presented in the London Hippodrome's Matcham Room in March 2013.
They created "Carner & Gregor's Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza," an annual summer concert in New York City featuring current college musical theater performers from around the country and world, selected by a panel of industry judges. Previous alums include Charlotte Maltby, Lora Lee Gayer, Holland Mariah Grossman, Blair Goldberg, Justin Stein, Kathryn Boswell, and Danielle Wade. Broadway hosts have included Sarah Stiles, Bobby Steggert, Natalie Weiss, and Andrew Kober.