Creators
ROGER GRIFFIN - BOOK & LYRICS
ROGER wrote the book and produced After Happily Ever After Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre. He wrote music, book and lyrics for Lights Out! produced at the Barn Dinner Theatre in Richmond,Virginia, and wrote book and lyrics for Vagabond Kings, Theatre Building Chicago. An experienced actor and director, Roger has appeared in both dinner theater and mainstage productions, directed over forty classic musicals and plays, and voiced numerous film narrations and training modules. While based in Chicago, he produced and directed a wide variety of films and videos, including PSAs, documentaries, television commercials and business to business advertising. Award winners include, Alice's Wonderland (Weisman Award), Honoring the Generations (Aurora, Telly), Maggie’s Attic (Intercom), and The Arrest is Only the Beginning, winner of six international awards, seen on PBS and nightly on Cox Cable for an entire year. Stuff and Nonsense, his Audiobook of Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poems, is available on Chirp, Google Play, Kobo, Libor.FM, NOOK Audiobooks, Scribd, Spotify and Storytelling.
ROSEANN HAMMILL - COMPOSER
Roseann began composing in early childhood, completing a collection of hymns at age eight. While still an undergraduate she scored The Green Thumb, a one-act opera for Interlochen Center for the Arts. Her musicals include A Holiday in Switzerland, The Lost Chain, and The Little Dipper, which toured two seasons with the Rosier Tent Show. Her vocal solo literature enjoys numerous recital performances across the country. A lifetime member of ASCAP, she is published by Interlochen Press and Allyn & Bacon Publishing.
DOUG KATSAROS - ORCHESTRATIONS/ARRANGEMENTS
Doug is an Emmy winning composer who has been conducting, composing, orchestrating, arranging on and off-Broadway for shows like Footloose, The Life, Rocky Horror, Altar Boyz, Getting The Band Back Together, The Toxic Avenger and A…My Name is Alice. He has written and conducted TV and film scores for Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Loggia and Sandra Bullock. He has dozens of gold and platinum CDs for artists such as Kiss, Sinéad O’Connor, Gloria Estefan, Frank Sinatra, Todd Rundgren, Rod Stewart, Judy Collins, B. B. King, Marlo Thomas (Grammy), Donny Osmond, Richie Havens, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Cher, Michael Bolton, and Peter Paul & Mary. He orchestrated Dee Snider’s Heavy Metal Broadway tribute, “Dee Does Broadway” and on TV, he garnered an Emmy nomination for his score to the animated series The Tick and wrote themes for The Jim Henson Hour, Mancuso FBI and the ABC Sunday Night Movie. He has conducted PBS’s Great Performancesand the Boston Pops. He has written special material for Ringling Brothers Circus, Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks and their Thanksgiving Day Parade, winning the Emmy for Best Original Song. And yes, he is the guy who wrote By Mennen.