Bobbi Boes - Book & Lyrics
- is an award-winning writer and recipient of the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for her screenplay, Sacramento.. Her screenplay, White Trash Cooking received the Bridget and Bob Colleary Award for Best Romantic Comedy, a Screenwriting Diversity Award, as well as the Stephen Gershenson Award. HALF LIFE, the tale of Irene Curie, was a finalist in the Sloan competition.
Boes created the TWO ROADS interactive television series, wrote the pilot, Dead as a Donor, and served as Head writer for two seasons for Charisma TV Productions. Her stage and multi-media theatrical productions include : R.I.P. Tales, the dark side of Old Town;Necromancer, a screenplay adapted for stage; and the ever-evolving Nutcracker-The Mousical.
Books include The Nutcracker Retold - Nuts to You!; The Faeries of Beverly Glen; Bon Dia, Y'all! She is currently working on The G'ma Goerzen Stories, a children's off beat series.
Boes served as Assistant Producer for two seasons of the UCLA ‘next’ television magazine program in Los Angeles. Boes teaches Screenwriting, Film, and Video, with experience at Osher and all three levels of the California higher education system. She now offers writing help in her Writer's Room. Boes holds an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA and a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAAP.
Don York - Music
Composer/conductor/pianist Don York showed his prodigious musical talent early, playing piano at age three, composing and improvising by age seven. After graduating from The Julliard School of Music in 1969 with a degree in music composition, Don's fluency at the piano landed him pop gigs with Hall & Oates, Maureen McGovern, July Collins and Esther Phillips, Jax gigs with Elvin Jones, Clark Terry, Nick Brignola and Lee Konitz. He became Bette Midler's Musical Director in 1975. York is recognized world
