Alex Lefevre
Music and Lyrics
Alex Lefevre is an Assistant Professor of Theatre/Music Director in the Department of Theatre at Coastal Carolina University. Alex has played on Broadway in the orchestras of Aladdin, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Cats, Newsies, and White Christmas along with work Off-Broadway including The Fantasticks and Avenue Q and on national tour with Anastasia, Hairspray and Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano. An avid proponent of new musicals, Alex has music directed productions in both the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and New York Fringe Festival as well as at 54 Below, The York Theatre Company, Primary Stages, and Ars Nova. As a composer, his work has been featured in the NEO 6 Concert at the York Theatre Company celebrating New, Emerging and Outstanding Musical Theatre Writers as well as in the San Diego Fringe Festival, the Scranton Fringe Festival, and at La Mama: Umbria. In addition to his work in musical theatre, Alex serves as an opera coach both in the United States and Italy for Varna International.
Marybeth Berry
Book
Marybeth Berry, associate professor of theatre and speech at University of South Carolina Lancaster, has directed and produced over 50 plays and musicals with nominations from KCACTF, Metrolina Theatre Association and Best of Columbia. Performance credits include The Human Voice, A Mother’s Journey (Producer’s Club NYC), Maria’s Pictures (Dionysius Festival Croatia), Bea & Me (La MaMa Spoleto Open, Italy; Seacoast Fringe, NH), On the Spectrum (San Diego Fringe, Boulder Fringe, Scranton Fringe, Cantiere Oberan), The Blurr (International Festival of Theatre Making, Greece). Currently pursuing her third MFA in Screenwriting after recently completing an MFA in Creative Writing, her written works include A Mother’s Journey, Bea & Me, On the Spectrum, and The Blurr where they have been performed nationally and internationally from San Diego to Italy and Greece and back to South Carolina. Marybeth additionally traveled to Ireland to perform On the Spectrum at the Ardgillan Castle after a workshop at the FringeLab in Dublin.