Board of Directors
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Michael Wartofsky (Founder, President, AWL Facilitator) is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he established an undergraduate minor in Musical Theater Writing in 2015 and won a Distinguished Faculty Award in 2018. His album "All the Possibilities: Broadway Sings Wartofsky" on Yellow Sound Label features twelve breathtaking Broadway voices interpreting his original songs. Michael composed the musicals Car Talk: The Musical!!! and Cupcake, both produced in Boston in 2012, and wrote music/lyrics for The Man in My Head starring Darius de Haas at New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) 2006. In 2014, he was a finalist in the Davenport Musical Theater Songwriting Contest, and his song “Without Your Love” was released on Write This Way, a solo album by John Michael Dias. In 2013, Michael’s songs were featured in the revue Never Far From Home at Central Square Theater with script by Broadway playwright Lydia Diamond; and in The Concert hosted by Seth Rudetsky at Second Stage in NYC. The Broadway Boys have performed on numerous occasions "All the Possibilities," named one of the “top 25 songs” of 2012 by ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com. Adjunct faculty and alumnus, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; Founder, NOMTI (New Opera & Musical Theater Initiative); member, The Dramatist Guild. Winner, Frederick Loewe Foundation First Look Award 2009; Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Music Composition, 1997. www.michaelwartofsky.com
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David Reiffel (Treasurer, AWL Facilitator) has contributed some combination of music, lyrics, and book to 26 musical productions, including Cupcake (book/lyrics), The Rag Doll (music/lyrics, Blue Spruce Theatre, IRNE Nomination, Best New Play), Chairman of the Board (music/lyrics), The Lady from Maxim’s (music), Pleasant Dreams (book/music/lyrics) and Say Goodbye (book/music/lyrics), along with five children’s musicals commissioned by the Winsor School in Boston. Nine of his shows were written while touring the United States as a founding member and resident composer/songwriter for the nationally-acclaimed Cornerstone Theater Company. His latest full-length musical, Glory, which was developed at the New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative (NOMTI) Advanced Writers’ Lab, was featured in the Moonbox Boston New Works Festival in 2023. Several reams of cabaret songs, including the popular “Lili Gandolfi’s Driving Song,” are widely performed. He has written incidental music and designed sound on many Boston stages and nationally, including the 2017 West Coast premiere of Shakespeare in Love at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2018 he received the Elliott Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Direction of his original score for Shakespeare in Love and a flamenco-based reimagining of the score for Man of La Mancha. He is an Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music, where he teaches Musical Theater Writing. He is also an Artist in Residence at Apollinaire Theater Company in Chelsea, MA. www.davidreiffel.com
Leah Miles (director at large): Bio to come.
Cathyann Swindlehurst (director at large): Bio to come
Leah Miles (director at large): Bio to come.
Cathyann Swindlehurst (director at large): Bio to come