About the Writers

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nightingale the Rose"><U><B><IMG SRC="0abad700.jpg" border=0 width="173" height="368" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nightingale the Rose"><U><B><IMG SRC="1122f300.png" border=0 width="47" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>OME</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Story"><U>The Story</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Songs"><U>Songs</U></A>   |   <B>About the Writers</B>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Performances"><U>Performances</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Information"><U>Contact Information</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project History"><U>Project History</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>About the Writers</I></div> <div> Barnes & Alon are a new musical theatre collaborative team.  <B>The Nightingale and the Rose</B> is their first musical.   It is a short musical based on the fable by Oscar Wilde.</div> <div>  <A NAME="aaron_alon"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>AARON ALON</B></div> <div> <I>Music</I></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0ba5a8b0.jpg" border=0 width="90" height="139" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><A HREF="http://www.aaronalon.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.aaronalon.com"><U>Aaron Alon</U></A> is an award-winning, widely-performed young classical composer.  He has also been involved in musical theatre since the age of 9, as a pianist, actor, singer, and composer.  He holds a BA in music from the University of Chicago and an MM in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and is currently completing a doctorate in composition at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music.  He has also studied jazz arranging with Paul Ferguson and composition for musical theatre in Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab and in The Writers’ Workshop (formerly known as New Tuners) at Theatre Building Chicago.  </div> <div>  <A NAME="julie_pedersen"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0d2f3150.png" border=0 width="755" height="21" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>JOE BARNES</B></div> <div> <I>Book & Lyrics</I></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0bb5f850.jpg" border=0 width="95" height="133" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B>Joe Barnes is a poet and playwright.   His poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals and <I>TimeSlice</I>, an anthology of Houston poets.  Four of his plays have been produced locally; two have been featured at national festivals.   He wrote the book and lyrics for <I>The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg</I>, a musical which premiered in 2006 as part of the University of Houston's Theatre Lab program.  For many years a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department, Barnes now works as a research fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>