MURDER FOR TWO
Book and Lyrics by Kellen Blair
Book and Music by Joe Kinosian
High resolution images by Michael & Suz Karchmer
Starring Sam Krivda and Matthew McGloin
Directed By – Sam Scalamoni
Musical Director – Gary Adler
Scenic Design – Richard Chambers
Costume Design –Jennifer Spagone
Lighting Design – Patricia M. Nichols
Sound Design – Nathan Leigh
Matthew McGloin (The Suspects)
Matthew is honored to perform in this joyful show and at WHAT for the first time. New York/Off-Broadway credits include The Hello Girls (OCR, Prospect Theatre Company/59E59), Bastard Jones (The Cell), Casablanca Box (HERE Arts), Xanadu (Piper Theatre), workshops/readings with Tectonic Theater Project, Abingdon Theatre, Dixon Place, Ma-Yi, and The Lark. Regional: The Play That Goes Wrong(Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage), Misalliance, Cinderella (Olney Theatre), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Signature Theatre), As You Like It (Folger Theatre), History on Foot (Ford’s Theatre), On the Razzle, A Flea in Her Ear (Constellation Theatre), The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged, Complete History of America Abridged (Virginia Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Maryland Stage Company), and many world premiere plays and musicals at the Kennedy Center. TV: Primal Instinct (Investigation Discovery). Education: BFA Acting, UMBC. A warm thank you to you, our audiences, for supporting the arts and believing in the gifts of storytelling and laughter. Connect: www.matthewmcgloin.com.
Sam Krivda (Marcus)
Sam Krivda is excited to be making his WHAT debut! Favorite credits include Grey Gardens (Joe Kennedy/Jerry); Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest (Jan); Wittenberg (Hamlet). Thanks to Christopher, Michael, Sam, and everyone at WHAT for this exciting opportunity.
Sam Scalamoni (Director)
Sam Scalamoni is so happy to be making his WHAT debut with Murder For Two! Sam is the director of the critically acclaimed National Tours of Elf the Musical which has played the Theatre at Madison Square Garden and the Kennedy Center. Sam is currently developing the new musicals, A Thousand Faces, based on the life of film legend Lon Chaney, Unbelievable, about baseball legend Jackie Mitchell and a stage adaptation of MGM’s Summer Stock. Sam directed the world premiere national tour of the new musical Noel with book by best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl book series, Eoin Colfer.
Sam has a long relationship with the classic musical Disney’s Beauty and the Beast which he has directed regionally, and he is the Associate Director of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast for Disney Theatrical Group on Broadway and world-wide, most recently in Shanghai. Sam directed Les Misérables at Cortland Repertory Theatre, winning the SALT Award for Best Director of a Musical and won the Broadway World Award for Best Director of a Play for his direction of Agatha Christie’s An Unexpected Guest also at CRT. He is a founding member and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Skyline Theatre Company, a professional non-profit theatre company in New Jersey.
Gary Adler (Music Director)
Gary Adler is a conductor, pianist and composer in New York City. He served as the music director/arranger of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the world-famous Rockettes for eight years. He also music directed Avenue Q for its six year run on Broadway. As a writer, he received two 2005 Drama Desk nominations for his music and lyrics for the off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz. For Disney Channel, he created the musical world for Johnny and the Sprites, starring John Tartaglia. He co-produced and arranged two albums for Broadway’s Telly Leung, and has toured extensively with Chita Rivera. He also arranged the dance music for the Jimmy Buffett musical, Escape to Margaritaville. Other New York playing/conducting credits include The Fantasticks, Urinetown, Hairspray, Kinky Boots, It Shoulda Been You, and Nunsense.
Joe Kinosian (Book and Music)
Joe is the co-recipient of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award recognizing Murder for Two as Best New Musical following its record-breaking run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Joe was also nominated for Best Actor as The Suspects. Murder for Two had its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Uptown, going on to a year-long run at New World Stages. Joe’s work with Kellen Blair has been showcased at The Kennedy Center, The York Theater, and on Broadway at the Theatre World Awards. Joe received the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and the Harrington Award from the BMI Workshop. Joe also appeared in Dirty Blonde with Emily Skinner (Hangar Theater) and the NYC premiere of Dear Edwina Off-Broadway. kinosianandblair.com
Kellen Blair (book and Lyrics)
is the Drama Desk nominated co-:-creator of Murder for Two, the murder mystery musical comedy that ran for a year off-Broadway and has been touring internationally since 2014. The show earned Kellen (and co-writer Joe Kinosian) the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Musical Work in Chicago and the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers I Lorenz Hart Award for their contribution to musical theatre. Kellen’s lyrics have been heard on Broadway stages (at the Theatre World Awards), at the Kennedy Center, and in theatres across the country. His other musical works include Scrooge in Love (available to license through Tams-Witmark), Just Between the All of Us (an immersive musical comedy commissioned by Pittsburgh CLO), and Diane Steals the Show (being developed with Second Stage Theatre). In addition to writing for the theater, Kellen enjoys writing fiction and poetry. He teaches film and playwriting in New York City, where he lives with his wife and young son.
www .Kinosianandblair.com