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From one of musical theatre's most exciting new composers comes Ordinary Days, a refreshingly honest and funny musical about making real connections in the city that never sleeps (but probably should at some point.)
Ordinary Days tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. Ordinary Days is an original musical for anyone who's ever struggled to appreciate the simple things in a complex place. With equal doses of humor and poignancy, it celebrates how 8.3 million individual stories combine in unexpected ways to make New York City such a unique and extraordinary home.
 Lisa Brescia (Claire) has appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked, starred as Cleo in Twyla Tharp's The Times They Are A-Changin' and was seen as Marion Halcombe in The Woman in White when she stepped in for British star Maria Friedman. She played Amneris in Aida on Broadway for the last year of its run and was seen in the revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Regional credits include the Kennedy Center's Side Show (Violet), The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (Mom), Evita (Eva), The Last 5 Years (Cathy), A Little Night Music (Petra) and Brigadoon (Meg). For five years, she toured worldwide as a "Mama" with The Mamas and The Papas with original members John Phillips and Denny Doherty. Lisa is a proud graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was a member of the AADA Repertory Company. Thanks and love to my partner, Craig Carnelia.
 Hunter Foster (Jason). Broadway: Leo Bloom in The Producers, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic nominations), Bobby Strong in Urinetown (Outer Critic nomination), Les Miserables, Grease, Footloose and King David. Off-Broadway: Happiness (Drama Desk Nomination), Frankenstein, Dust, Modern Orthodox, Urinetown (Lucie Lortel nomination). Regional: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Signature Theatre-Helen Hayes Nomination), The Government Inspector (Guthrie) Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Children of Eden (Papermill), Moon Over Buffalo (Cape Playhouse), Lend Me a Tenor (Cape Playhouse), Martin Guerre, (Guthrie). National Tours: Cats, Martin Guerre, The Producers. As a writer, wrote the books for the musicals, Summer of '42, which opened Off-Broadway in 2001, Bonnie and Clyde: a Folktale at the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival, and most recently The Hollow, which premiered this summer at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Hunter is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
 Jared Gertner (Warren). Broadway: William Barfee in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the last year of its run. Prior to that, he spent a year playing Barfee in the San Francisco Company and The Boston Company of Spelling Bee, for which he won an IRNE Award for Best Actor. Other NY: The Off-Broadway run of the improv show Don't Quit Your Night Job; the premiere of the play Anatomy 1968 (Theatre Row, SPF); the premiere of the musical Corduroy (TheatreWorks USA); My Favorite Year (Musicals Tonight); FRINGE, NYMF and NAMT. Regional: Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (The Paper Mill Playhouse), The Happy Elf in the premiere of Harry Connick Jr's: The Happy Elf (First Stage Milwaukee), Warren in the premiere of Ordinary Days (Pennsylvania Centre Stage). Also: Cape Playhouse, Fulton Opera House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St Louis Rep, Orpheum Theatre Omaha, and 11th Hour Theatre Company (Philadelphia). Film: The Suicide Auditions and Between Love and Goodbye. Education: NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. www.jaredgertner.com.
 Kate Wetherhead (Deb). Broadway: Legally Blonde, Kate/Chutney; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Olive/Schwarzy/Marcy stand-by. Off-Broadway: WOOD, Diana; Sarah, Plain and Tall, Anna; Cam Jansen, Cam; Tatjana in Color, Tatjana; Summer of the Swans, Sarah. Other NY and Regional: Ordinary Days (Roundabout); Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas (Goodspeed); Steel Magnolias (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Recordings: Legally Blonde (Kate/Chutney); Finding Nemo, Live Cast Recording (Nemo); Sarah, Plain and Tall (Anna).
 Adam Gwon (Music & Lyrics) is a composer and lyricist named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine, and winner of the 2008 Fred Ebb award for excellence in musical theater songwriting. His musical Ordinary Days recently enjoyed a sold-out run at the Finborough Theatre in London, after making its world premiere at Pennsylvania Centre Stage and appearing in the 2008 NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the 2008 ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop. His other musicals include Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with librettist Julia Jordan) and Ethan Frome. His work has been seen at Primary Stages, the York Theatre, New Dramatists, the Flea Theater, American Music Theatre Project, NYMF, Symphony Space, and many others. He's currently at work on an original musical with playwright Sarah Hammond, commissioned by Broadway Across America; a musical commission from South Coast Rep for a project with Octavio Solis; and an adaptation of Joe Meno's "The Boy Detective Fails," commissioned by Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, as part of its American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation. Adam and his work were presented in concert at the Kennedy Center as part of their series "Broadway: The Third Generation" and you can watch the concert on their website. Adam was a 2006-07 musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild and is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Visit www.adamgwon.com.
Marc Bruni (Director) won the New York Musical Theatre Festival Directing Award for his production of Such Good Friends, and his production of Glimpses of the Moon just concluded a sold out run at the Algonquin Hotel Oak Room. He is currently the Associate Director of Legally Blonde (Tour/London) and appeared on MTV's "Search for Elle Woods". Additional directing credits include Rob Fisher's Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein concerts for Lincoln Center Songbook, St. Louis MUNY productions of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, My One and Only, and The Music Man (upcoming). He has been associated with Walter Bobbie, Kathleen Marshall, Jerry Mitchell, and Jerry Zaks on thirteen Broadway shows including Roundabout's revivals of The Pajama Game and The Man Who Came to Dinner, Irving Berlin's White Christmas (10 Productions Internationally), Grease, Wonderful Town, High Fidelity, Sweet Charity, La Cage Aux Folles, and Little Shop of Horrors (Bway/Tour) as well as on Two Gentlemen of Verona (NYSF), South Pacific (Carnegie Hall/PBS), and City Center Encores! productions of Finian's Rainbow, No, No, Nanette, Applause, 70, Girls, 70, and Bye Bye Birdie. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College
Vadim Feichtner (Music Direction/Piano) was most recently the musical director/arranger of ...Spelling Bee on Broadway. Other recent credits include Elegies: A Song Cycle (LCT), Party Come Here (Williamstown), The Burnt Part Boys (Vineyard) and the workshop for the upcoming Little Miss Sunshine. As a composer, he wrote the incidental music for the Public Theatre's As You Like It, and cowrote with William Finn, Songs of Innocence and Experience. Recordings: ...Spelling Bee (grammy nom.), Elegies, I Sing!, Infinite Joy, and Make Me A Song.
Lee Savage (Set Design). New York: Oohrah! (Atlantic); The Bereaved (Partial Comfort); punkplay (Clubbed Thumb); End Days (EST); I (Heart) Kant, The Private Lives of Eskimos (Committee Theatre). Regional: Alliance, Asolo, Centerstage, Old Globe, Long Wharf, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Chautauqua Theater Company, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Rep, Trinity Rep. Awards: Helen Hayes Nomination (Richard III); Connecticut Critics Circle (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow). Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design; B.F.A. from RISD and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
Lisa Zinni (Costume Design) is the Associate Costume Designer for the Broadway production of Hair. She was the Associate designer of Rent for its 12 year Broadway run. She is responsible for the current US tour, and previous national and international companies of Rent including Italy, China, Canada and The UK. NY credits: Off-Broadway, NYMF, NY international Fringe Festival, Algonquin Oak room. Regional: Syracuse Stage, The Arden Theatre Company (Barrymore Nomination), The Cape Playhouse, Bristol Riverside Theatre, People's Light & Theatre Company, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival.
Jeff Croiter (Lighting Design). Roundabout: The Dazzle; Fiction; Streamers. Other NYC credits include: Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway; Next Fall, concerts at the New Amsterdam including Chess, Hair, and On The 20th Century; Jerry Springer The Opera; Rufus Wainwright's Judy Concert at Carnegie Hall; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Voysey Inheritance; Adrift in Macao; Things We Want; The Internationalist; Burleigh Grime$; Drumstruck; Jacques Brel; I Love You Because; Almost, Maine; Trumbo; Matt & Ben; Cam Jansen; Miss Witherspoon; Privilege. Love to Kate
Daniel Erdberg (Sound Design). Off-Broadway: 7 Headed Mouse, (Theater Row) Golden Boy (59E59), Esther Demsack (Public/SPF) Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Public), The Rockae, Tock Tick (Prospect), Magpie (Amas), Painted Ladies (Symphony Space), Your Mom's Feet (Interarts), Bath Party (HERE). Regional: Rooms (MetroStage, Geva). Tours: Circus Smirkus. NYMF: White Noise, Party Come Here. Assistant/Associate: Dreamgirls (US Tour, Korea) White Christmas (Detroit, Toronto), Midsummer Night's Dream (Delacorte). Nominations: Audelco Award, NYMF Excellence in Design. Graduate of Northwestern University.
Andy Einhorn (Music Associate): Broadway/UK/National Tour: The Light in the Piazza; National Tours: South Pacific, Sweeney Todd, White Christmas, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!; Audra McDonald's coach/pianist: Poulenc's La Voix Humaine/La Chiusa's Send (HGO). Workshops: Los Otros (CTG), iSondheim, February House, Disney's The Little Mermaid. Regional: Ordinary Days (Orchestrations/Music Director, ATF), American Vaudeville (Alley Theatre), Street Scene, The Boy Friend (Goodspeed). Pianist: Lotte Lenya Competition. Music director/ pianist: Aaron Lazar, Michael Cerveris, Kelli O'Hara. Orchestrations/arrangements: Paulo Szot, Natalie Toro, Diana DiMarzio. Honors graduate, Rice University.
Support provided by Jodi and Daniel Glucksman, The Educational Foundation of America,
The Shen Family Foundation, Laura S. Rodgers/The Honorable Ann W. Brown & Donald A. Brown,
and Stephen and Ruth Hendel. Roundabout Underground is also supported, in part, by funds from
the City of New York Theater Subdistrict Council, LDC and the City of New York. Support for new plays
provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
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