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Daniel Frederick Levin’s musical, To Paint the Earth, (book and lyrics) recently completed its run as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s Next Link Series, at 37 Arts, Manhattan. The musical, written with composer Jonathan Portera, won a 2004 Richard Rodgers Development Award and was produced in a series of readings at the Abingdon Theatre in New York City that year (Premieres, Paulette Haupt Artistic Director). With Portera, he also wrote the short musical The Hungry Lion, and served as a Jonathan Larson Memorial Fellow at the Dramatists Guild (2003-2004) under the mentorship of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Daniel’s one-act play, Going to Belize, was presented at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, in February, 2007. In March 2007, Daniel’s monologue, “Glorious Evening,” was included alongside new works by John Guare and Neil LaBute in 5-story Walk-up, a series of short works performed at and for the benefit of the 13th Street Repertory. The piece will be published by Applause Books in its anthology “THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS: 2007-2008”. In 2006, his absurdist tragic-comedy The Waiter…always the waiter, was presented in a reading at the 92nd Street Y’s Makor/Steinhardt Center. Daniel’s musical, Luna Park (book), was commissioned by SUNY Cortland, and was presented there in October 2008, with a cast of 48 (including midgets and moon men). In April 2007, he co-created and produced “Where’s Darfur?” at the Knitting Factory, a concert to raise awareness about the genocide and benefit the refugees in Darfur, Sudan. The night raised $10,000 for relief work. Daniel holds an MFA in musical theatre writing as a composer/lyricist from the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and a BA from Yale. |