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Robert Lindsey Nassif

Composed the score for the Broadway production of Hollywood Arms by Carol Burnett and Carrie Hamilton, directed by Harold Prince.

Off-Broadway: Wrote the book, music and lyrics for Opal (Richard Rodgers and AT&T Awards).

Wrote the music, lyrics and additional dialog for Honky-Tonk Highway (Backstage and MAC Awards; directed by Gabriel Barre; also produced at Goodspeed).

Regional: Opal (George Street Playhouse, directed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett). Composed the dance and incidental music for Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce (Goodman and Kennedy Center; directed by Hal Prince).

Wrote the music and lyrics for Eliot Ness In Cleveland (Denver Center and Cleveland Playhouse; directed by David Esbjornson).

Worked with Arthur Miller on an opera of Death of A Salesman.

Wrote five projects for Disney Feature Animation.

Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations for Best Book, Music, and Lyrics (Opal), and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Score (Flight of the Lawnchair Man).

Awards

Recipient of the Music Publishers Association Award and the Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Award given at Lincoln Center.

Richard Rodgers full production award, given by a committee chaired by Stephen Sondheim and the AT&T Award (Opal). Backstage Bistro and MAC Awards (Honky-Tonk Highway).

Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations for Best Book, Music, and Lyrics (Opal), and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Score (Flight of the Lawnchair Man).

Peter Ullian

Peter Ullian’s work for the stage has been produced off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally, and includes THE COLLEGIATE SISTERHOOD OF LAKE PAWTUCKAWAY, which he wrote and directed for the Forward Phoenix New Play Project, as well as WAITING FOR MARCEL, which premiered in Cape Town as part of the Book Wings South Africa theatre festival. Other plays include BLACK FIRE WHITE FIRE, presented by Jewish Plays Project at OPEN: the Festival of New Jewish Plays; HESTER STREET HIDEAWAY: A LOWER EAST SIDE LOVE STORY, produced by En Garde Arts; STUCK IN LUXEMBOURG, produced by Theatre Winter Haven; and NEW AMERICAN CENTURY, developed at 4th Wall at the Beacon and the Lark Play Development Center. His published work includes the plays BIG BOSSMAN and THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF BLACKBIRD FLYNT, both originally produced by the Cleveland Public Theatre and both available from Broadway Play Publishing. He has written the libretto for the musicals ELIOT NESS, produced at the Denver Theatre Center and the Cleveland Playhouse; SIGNS OF LIFE, produced off-Broadway, at the Village Theatre, and at Chicago’s Victory Gardens; and FLIGHT OF THE LAWNCHAIR MAN, produced at the Prince Music Theatre, the Ahmanson Theatre, 37 Arts, and Goodspeed Musicals, and licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Directors who have helmed productions of his work include Harold Prince, David Esbjornson, Jeremy Dobrish, Lisa Portes, and Lynn Taylor-Corbett. He has written screenplays for major and independent movie studios, and his short fiction has been published in Cemetery Dance, Hardboiled, and the DAW Books anthology Star Colonies. Critics have described his work as “daring,” “ambitious,” “provocative and witty,” “pulsing, power-packed, vital and visionary,” “crazy and charming,” and “a cross between David Mamet and the Marx Brothers.” His awards for dramatic writing include a Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center/Fund for New American Plays, two Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theatre Foundation Commendation awards, and two National Endowment for the Arts production grants. He has been a visiting professor, lecturer, or guest artist at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, SUNY Old Westbury, Western Michigan University, Juniata College, and the Hollins University MFA Playwrights Lab. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and two sons

Matthew Meckes
Jason Millsap
Brian Glick

Libretto in Hand

Eliot Ness In Cleveland tells the bizarre story of Ness vs. the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, American’s first serial killer. It is 1933. Ness is already famous, having been credited with bringing in notorious gangsterAl Capone back in Chicago, where Ness headed an elite group of police called the Untouchables. Ness is brought to Cleveland with much fanfare and the lofty expectation that he will clean up rampant crime and corruption in the city and stop the Mad Butcher’s murderous spree. Haunted by the specter of Al Capone, Ness spirals into madness as he tries to capture the Butcher and salvage his own reputation. Book by Peter Ullian, Music and Lyrics by Robert Lindsey-Nassif, Co-adaptation by Nick Corley. (Based on the play In the Shadow of the Terminal Tower by Peter Ullian) Originally presented by The Directors Company.

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Show Announcement

Elliot Ness in Cleveland will be presented as a reading.

Elliot Ness in Cleveland is part of the Second Stage Series, Libretto In Hand. With a piano and a script in hand and nothing between you and the actors on stage, these performers come together to give you a real and raw presentation of a musical. Presented in the CSPS Hall black box theatre on the main auditorium. For subscribers, this can be an add on to your show package.

Tickets for the Libretto In Hand are $20 + 7 fee.

Music and Lyrics Robert Lindsey-Nassif

Book Peter Ullian

Dates: June 20 & 21

Times: 7:30

Venue: CSPS Hall 1103 3rd St Se Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401

Directed by: Robert Lindsey-Nassif

Rated PG-13

Health & Safety information

Cast & Creative

Robert Lindsey Nassif
as Director, Composer, Lyricist, Playwright

Peter Ullian
as Book

Matthew Meckes
as Music Director

Jason Millsap
as Associate Director and Stage Manager

Brian Glick
as Executive and Artistic Director








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