Reincarnation Blues is a musical comedy about a soul who is reincarnated 10,000 times to be with his one true love:
Death herself.
Death herself.
The Team
Laura Zlatos (Book) is a Pittsburgh-born, Brooklyn-based playwright and librettist. Her plays include “Show Trial” (2024 Jane Chambers Prize, finalist), "The Blue Whale" (Shawnee Playhouse; 2024 S.O.P.S. Dramatic Play Winner; 2022 Todd McNerney Playwriting Award; 2021 Marsha A. Croyle Award, 2019 Dr. R.J. Rodriguez Emerging Playwrights Contest), "The Even More Lamentable Tragedy of Lavinia" (2020 Women are Funny Prize), "Happily After Ever" (59E59 Theaters; Bloomington Playwrights Project; Edinburgh Fringe Festival; 2017 Woodward/Newman Drama Award; The Advocate's “Top 10 NY Theater of 2016,” Honorable Mention), "Three Hours" (HERE Arts Center), and the musical "A Problem with the Pattersons" (2023 CITSTS Emerging Writers Residency; finalist; 2020 O'Neill Music Theatre Conference, semifinalist) with lyricist/composer Andre Catrini. Laura was a playwriting fellow with Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company and a resident playwright with the Exquisite Corpse Company. She has developed work at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and The Orchard Project and was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award. Laura ZlatosBook Writer
Ben Thornewill (co-composer & lyricist) is the lead singer and pianist of the piano-pop trio Jukebox The Ghost. Over the past two decades, the band has released eight studio albums, performed on multiple late-night TV shows, and played nearly a thousand shows—including major festivals—building a devoted fanbase and regularly selling out venues across the country. Beyond his work with Jukebox The Ghost, Ben releases solo music under his own name. His album Quiet At The End Of The Day has garnered millions of streams, led by the single “Songbirds.” His viral project, Names Into Music, transforms people’s names into unique, personalized compositions. A classically trained pianist and composer, Ben is currently developing two musicals while also working as a film composer (Egghead & Twinkie), session pianist (Sting, Ingrid Michaelson), music producer, and arranger. Ben ThornewillMusic + Lyrics
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Coyle Girelli (co-composer & lyricist) is a British recording artist, singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Formerly fronting alternative rock bands Your Vegas and most recently The Chevin, he released his debut solo album “Love Kills” in late 2018, sophomore album “Funland” in 2022 featuring single "Do You Wanna Dance?" and third solo album “Museum Day” in late 2023. His fourth solo album is scheduled for release in the summer of 2025. He co-wrote songs for award-winning, record-breaking French musicals ‘Robin Des Bois’ (2013) and ‘Les Trois Mousquataries’ (2016.) He is currently working on several new musicals in his adopted hometown, New York City, including “True Love Forever,” an immersive theater show that Girelli created in partnership with Third Rail Projects which opened in New York in Fall 2024, “Reincarnation Blues” and “Choreomania.” Coyle GirelliMusic + Lyrics
Josh Sobel / FutureHome (Producer) is a multimedia multi-disciplinary development and production incubator dedicated to leaving the world more hopeful than they found it, and was part of the Tony-winning producing team of Appropriate feat. Sarah Paulson. Additional credits include Broadway’s Gutenberg! The Musical! feat. Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (Tony Nominee / Drama Desk Nominee) and the box-office hit revival of The Wiz feat. Wayne Brady, along with the current UK tour of hit parody Hold On To Your Butts by New York company Recent Cutbacks. Josh is also a decorated director, dramaturg / development consultant, and educator, and was named one of Newcity’s “Players 2019: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago”. He has had the privilege of working with Avery Brooks (American History X, Julie Taymor’s The Tempest) and John De Lancie (Star Trek: TNG), and his work has sold out at Steppenwolf Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe, where FutureHome’s Awake & Narcoleptic with Sarah Albritton was named a Playbill Pick by Playbill Editor-in-Chief Diep Tran. Prior to FutureHome Josh served as Artistic Director of Haven Chicago (2014-2019) and Associate Director of “Theatermakers” at the O’Neill National Theater Institute (2010-2012), with additional roles and credits at Victory Gardens Theater, Steep Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Strawdog Theatre, CalArts, and the University of Iowa. He has taught directing, text analysis, dramatic literature and professional development at CalArts, Columbia College Chicago, the O’Neill National Theater Institute and more. SDCF Observer 2012. MFA, CalArts. BA, Oberlin College. FutureHomeProducer
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LDK Productions (Executive Producer / General Management) is a theatrical general management and producing firm based in New York City, founded by Lisa Dozier Shacket in 2007. Current/ Recent: Winesday: The Wine Tasting Musical, The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, Without You (NYC, San Francisco, Japan, Boston), Emergence, The Night of the Iguana, Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, White Rose The Musical and Alive: The Zombie Musical. Select Past Credits: The immersive theatrical adaptation of Sideways, Kennedy: Bobby’s Last Crusade (Off Broadway and Broadway on Demand stream), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, A Letter to Harvey Milk, The Crusade of Connor Stephens, Vincent, Promising, Bedbugs the Musical, Breakfast with Mugabe, F#%king Up Everything, Sistas the Musical, Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte, Ten Chimneys, The Duchess of Malfi, How to be a Good Italian Daughter, Milk, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Into the Hazard (Henry 5), The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, Jeff Daniels’ Apartment 3A. Lisa is also a professor of practice focusing in theatre management at the University of Florida and served as the BFA theatre management program director at the University of Miami from 2013-2018. She was the founding producing director for Miami New Drama, a regional theatre that produces and manages the 400 seat historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach. Lisa also served as the resident general manager for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals from 2008-2018. Prior to forming LDK Productions, Lisa was on staff at the New 42nd Street, Manhattan Theatre Club, Symphony Space, American Repertory Theatre, and New York Stage & Film. LDK ProductionsExecutive Producer / General Manager
Michael Graf (Co-Producer) is a passionate advocate for storytelling and live theater with extensive experience across stage and screen. His notable theatrical work includes co-producing The Roommate on Broadway, starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow. His career spans prestigious networks including AMC, BBC, and HGTV, where he served as a television executive. Michael brings his wealth of production expertise to Reincarnation Blues and is thrilled to help bring this compelling story to the stage. Michael GrafCo-Producer
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Short Street Productions Ltd was established in 2023 by Mark Rubinstein, Sarah Edwards and Dave McNeilly. We are a producing and general management company, working in the West End and on tour both national and internationally. Current projects include: TINA – The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre and UK & Ireland Tour), Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), the forthcoming production of The Great Gatsby – A New Musical (London Coliseum) and a number of mid to large scale projects at various stages of development both regionally in the UK and the West End. Recent projects (including under Mark Rubinstein Ltd) include: SINATRA – The Musical (Birmingham Rep), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK & Ireland Tour), Be More Chill (The Other Palace), SWEAT (Gielgud Theatre), Company (Gielgud Theatre), La Soirée (ninth Christmas season in London and currently on a ten-year rolling International Tour – 2015 Olivier Award: Best Entertainment), Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle (Wyndham’s Theatre), Billy Elliot The Musical (UK and Ireland Tour), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre – winner of two Olivier Awards 2015), The Miser (Garrick Theatre), The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre), Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (UK and India Tour), Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined (Criterion Theatre), School of Rock (Pre-production, New London Theatre), ONCE the Musical (Phoenix Theatre and Korea), Jeeves and Wooster (Duke of York’s Theatre and National Tour – 2014 Olivier Award: Best New Comedy), the UK tour of War Horse on behalf of the National Theatre, A Doll’s House (Duke of York’s Theatre and BAM, New York), Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable (Temple Studios, Paddington) and the original West End transfers of the National Theatre’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Rubinstein was the President of the Society of London Theatre from 2011 to 2014 and Vice President from 2014 to 2017. Short StreetGeneral Manager (UK)
Bio Coming Soon! Holly ReissExecutive Producer (UK)
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Eleri Ward, Morgan Siobhan Green, More to Star in Reincarnation Blues Concert!
The presentation will take place on Monday, March 31 at Drom (85 Avenue A) in NYC. Tickets at DROMNYC.com Read more at Playbill and BroadwayWorld! PLUS, LISTEN BELOW for a sneak peek at one of the songs from the show, "PROCESSION OF THE SOULS" feat. Eleri Ward |
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