Team
Sam Carner & Derek Gregor
Among Playbill.com’s “Twelve Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know”, won the Richard Rodgers Award and the John Wallowitch Award for songwriters under 40, and Sam won the Kleban Prize for “Most Promising Librettist.” Their songs, which have garnered 11 MAC nominations for “Best Song” / “Best Comedic Song” with one win, are performed in hundreds of venues around the world every year and have been sung on all seven continents (including Antarctica).
Their musical Unlock’d received a rapturously-received production in 2018 at Houston’s Queensbury Theatre, and the show was produced by Prospect Theatre Company at the Duke Theater in the summer of 2013 (“gorgeous” – NYTimes Festival in 2007, where it won the “Best of the Fest” audience prize and “Astounding, enveloping” –Talkin’ Broadway). Previously Unlock’d was produced at the New York Musical Theatre received Talkin’ Broadway citations for “Outstanding New Musical” and “Outstanding Original Theatrical Score.”
Their musical Island Song, which boasts seven MAC-nominated songs, was produced at the Adirondack Theatre Festival (“tuneful, lyrically smart, and full of heart... an uncountable number of bright, funny lyrics... superb” – Albany Times Union), the Bloomington Playwrights Project (“mesmerizing... vibrant, supercharged” – Herald Times), London’s Rose Bruford College, Oakland University, and London’s Hidden Theatre. Island Song has been performed in workshop or concert at the Balagan Theatre in Seattle, the Indiana Festival of Theatre, Princeton University, Western Carolina University, (le) Poisson Rouge in New York, Crawfish in Tokyo (in Japanese), the Comedie Nation in Paris, London’s St. James Studio, and many more. Other current projects include Toast, a jazz/electro-pop fusion musical set in post-Katrina New Orleans (developed at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Coastal Carolina University, and the Johnny Mercer Colony), an adaptation of an ABC television series to be announced, additional songs for Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living In New York (original songs by Michael Devon, book by Todd Graff, directed by Susan Stroman), and an adaptation of Emma McLaughlin’s and Nicola Kraus’s New York Times best seller “Dedication”.
Sam and Derek’s special material include the children’s musical Love, Splat, which has been touring the US since 2013 in the TheatreWorks USA revue The Teacher From the Black Lagoon and Other Stories, “Sleep Song” for Cait Doyle’s Hot Mess In Manhattan (Araca Project 2012, etc.), “Eleven O’Clock” for Unsung Musicals’ The Passing Show, “Hard Candy” and “You Inspire Me” for the popular web series My Gay Roommate, and “Redheads Unite” for Redheads Anonymous (Indie Series “Best Song” nomination). Their ten-minute musical Flash-Priest was presented by the Prospect Theatre Company in Rites of Passage in the spring of 2012.
They also created the “Barely Legal Showtune Extravaganza” series, which brought some of the country’s most talented college performers to New York every summer for a blow-out concert, and concerts dedicated to their work have been presented at dozens of venues around the world, including Lincoln Center Feinsteins’s/54 Below, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, St. James Studio and Matcham Room in London, Kompact Theatre in Brighton, the University of Michigan, Baldwin Wallace University, Colorado Mesa University, Oakland University, Roosevelt University, Edge Hill University, and many more.
Judy Loseff - Producer
In 2013, JUDY LOSEFF, a romantic-comedy lover who believes mixing humor with love makes magic, launched her producing career with the award- winning musical comedy UNLOCK’D, which The New York Times called “surprisingly lovely...very amusing...gorgeous.”
Ms. Loseff’s other theatrical producing projects include the Broadway-bound King’s Speech, Half Time (Paper Mill Playhouse, Broadway in Chicago), Othello: The Remix (Off-Broadway), Can Can (Paper Mill Playhouse), Handle With Care (Off-Broadway), and Island Song (in development). Ms. Loseff has also been involved with An American in Paris (Broadway, London, U.S. Tour) and The 39 Steps (Off-Broadway) as an investor-producer. Ms. Loseff is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theater (NAMT) and has completed courses at the Commercial Theatre Institute (CTI).
A native Chicagoan, Ms. Loseff was also a journalist employed by The Chicago Sun Times and other publications. She authored the book, “Special Kids Need Special Parents: A Resource for Parents of Children with Special Needs” (Berkeley Publishing) and has worked to help families of children with special needs.
Ms. Loseff has a Masters degree in Social Work and has appeared on television, radio and in print across the United States as well as internationally, advocating for special families.