TEAM
DANIELLA CAGGIANO is a freelance director and native New Yorker. She is a Resident Director at The Flea and a former MTC Directing Fellow, Drama League Resident, and alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Named one of The Interval’s “Women to Watch”, Daniella has directed or developed work at NYTW, Joe’s Pub, The Lark, MTF, WOW Cafe, HERE, and 54 Below among others. Favorite projects include a site-appropriate Fun Home in a funeral home (starring Tony nominee Jenn Colella), Next To Normal, Vinegar Tom (performed with an original Riot Grrrl score), Macbeth, Tumacho (Assistant, dir. Leigh Silverman) and School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Associate, dir. Rebecca Taichman). MFA The New School, BA Sarah Lawrence College www.daniellacaggiano.com
TERESA LOTZ is an award-winning playwright and composer-lyricist. Her work includes She Calls Me Firefly (2019 New York Innovative Theater Award Winner, World Premiere: Soho Playhouse, dir. Ludovica Villar-Hauser), Akira & The Merpeople w/Claire Tran (Polyphone Festival, THEatre ACCelerator), Red Emma & the Mad Monk (NY Times Critic’s Pick, 6 NYIT Nominations, The Tank, Ars Nova ANT Fest, dir. Katie Lindsay) w/Alexis Roblan, ThreeTimesFast (book and music) w/Naomi Matlow, (Industry Showcase 2020, dir. Michael Bello, Florida Festival of New Musicals 2019, O'Neill Theater Festival Semi-Finalist), Mommy’s Little Princess: A Craigslist Love Story (The Barbour Award Finalist 2018, The Episcopal Actor's Guild, dir. Daniella Caggiano), The Awakening w/Sarah Rebell (O'Neill Theater Festival Semi-Finalist, MTF Developmental Series 2016 Playwright’s Horizons, 2016) Teresa was a 2020 Finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant, is an alumni of New Perspective Theatre Company’s Women’s Work Lab.. Teresa is a member of Dramatist’s Guild and ASCAP. Music Composition, B.M., Bowling Green State University. Musical Theatre Writing, M.F.A., New York University. www.teresalotz.com
Tidtaya Sinutoke (ฑิตยา สินุธก) is a Thai born, NYC-based composer. Composition credits include: HALF THE SKY (5th Avenue Theatre's First Draft Commission), CLOUDS ARE PILLOWS FOR THE MOON (Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Kilroy's Honorable Mentions), HART ISLAND REQUIEM (The Civilians R&D Group, Polyphone Festival), and WATER IS LIFE (NYMF - How The Light Gets In). She is a recipient of the Composer-Librettists Studio at New Dramatists, Johnny Mercer Songwriter Projects, NYFA IAM Mentoring Program, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, EtM Con Edison Composer-in-Residence, Catwalk Arts Residency, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Theater MU's New Eyes Festival, Theater Latté Da's NEXT Festival, Sokoloff Arts Fellowship, Musical Theatre Factory's MAKERS Cohort, Jonathan Larson Grant, and Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award. A proud member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and Thai Theatre Foundation. BM: Berklee College of Music; MFA: NYU. tidtayasinutoke.com
TERESA LOTZ is an award-winning playwright and composer-lyricist. Her work includes She Calls Me Firefly (2019 New York Innovative Theater Award Winner, World Premiere: Soho Playhouse, dir. Ludovica Villar-Hauser), Akira & The Merpeople w/Claire Tran (Polyphone Festival, THEatre ACCelerator), Red Emma & the Mad Monk (NY Times Critic’s Pick, 6 NYIT Nominations, The Tank, Ars Nova ANT Fest, dir. Katie Lindsay) w/Alexis Roblan, ThreeTimesFast (book and music) w/Naomi Matlow, (Industry Showcase 2020, dir. Michael Bello, Florida Festival of New Musicals 2019, O'Neill Theater Festival Semi-Finalist), Mommy’s Little Princess: A Craigslist Love Story (The Barbour Award Finalist 2018, The Episcopal Actor's Guild, dir. Daniella Caggiano), The Awakening w/Sarah Rebell (O'Neill Theater Festival Semi-Finalist, MTF Developmental Series 2016 Playwright’s Horizons, 2016) Teresa was a 2020 Finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant, is an alumni of New Perspective Theatre Company’s Women’s Work Lab.. Teresa is a member of Dramatist’s Guild and ASCAP. Music Composition, B.M., Bowling Green State University. Musical Theatre Writing, M.F.A., New York University. www.teresalotz.com
Tidtaya Sinutoke (ฑิตยา สินุธก) is a Thai born, NYC-based composer. Composition credits include: HALF THE SKY (5th Avenue Theatre's First Draft Commission), CLOUDS ARE PILLOWS FOR THE MOON (Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Kilroy's Honorable Mentions), HART ISLAND REQUIEM (The Civilians R&D Group, Polyphone Festival), and WATER IS LIFE (NYMF - How The Light Gets In). She is a recipient of the Composer-Librettists Studio at New Dramatists, Johnny Mercer Songwriter Projects, NYFA IAM Mentoring Program, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, EtM Con Edison Composer-in-Residence, Catwalk Arts Residency, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Theater MU's New Eyes Festival, Theater Latté Da's NEXT Festival, Sokoloff Arts Fellowship, Musical Theatre Factory's MAKERS Cohort, Jonathan Larson Grant, and Weston-Ghostlight New Musical Award. A proud member of ASCAP, the Dramatists Guild, and Thai Theatre Foundation. BM: Berklee College of Music; MFA: NYU. tidtayasinutoke.com
