Beautiful Hair - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ronvé O'Daniel is a proud alumni and Assistant Professor at Wright State University inDayton, OH. He is an award winning songwriter, playwright, actor, director, hip-hoprecording artist whose work has been produced Off-Broadway, as well as TheatreWorksSilicon Valley New Works Festival, Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony Residency at Goodspeed Theater, NYU-Tisch School forthe Arts, and many other theaters around the country.Recently, Ronvé wrote original music and lyrics for the Off-Broadway production ofCharles Randolph-Wright's Duke & Roya, starring Jay Ellis and directed by WarrenAdams. He is also collaborating with concert composer Gilad Cohen on Here We Stand, a classical/hip-hop fusion piece featuring two rappers/singers and a large ensemble thatis inspired by singer/activist Paul Robeson. In addition, he is working with longtimecollaborators Jevares Myrick and J Kyle Manzay on Greenwood: The Black WallstreetMusical, an original piece based on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, which is beingdeveloped in partnership with Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA.Ronvé is the recipient of Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference's GeorgiaBogardus Holof Lyricist Award - given to only one lyricist every summer whoexemplifies a promising career in musical theater writing. He has collaborated with Tonynominated and Drama Desk winner director Tina Landau on The Big Mix: a three weekcelebration of Juneteenth and LGBTQXIA+ Pride. He has also had the honor of workingwith Tony Nominated Actor/Poet/Lyricist Daniel J. Watts on his acclaimed one manshow: Only Child.Ronvé's albums include: Motivation Music (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal) and He SpeaksSo Well (available on Bandcamp). He is also a co-writer for the children's hip hop songseries Uncle Apple (21.1K monthly listeners on Spotify).His composer/lyricist works include: Superhero (Off-Broadway Composer/SoundDesigner), The Earth Remembers (Virginia Stage Company), What's Going On - Songsof Change (92NY Lyrics & Lyricists Series), Once Upon a Rhyme (NYU Tisch, UproarTheatrics), The Hippest Wizard of OZ, Beautiful Hair (City Springs Theatre Company, Uproar Theatrics), Letters to the President, The Earth Remembers (Virginia PublicWorks), The New Girl (Concord Theatricals).As an educator, Ronvé has held residencies and taught masterclasses on songwriting, musical theatre performance and hip-hop performance for various organizations andinstitutions including Wright State University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, andAuburn University.You can keep up with him at ronveodaniel.com.

Jevares Myrick is a New York-based producer, composer, singer, actor, dancer, and choreographer. Raised in Marietta, GA, he is an alumnus of the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (Pebblebrook High School), and attended Wright State University on a full scholarship for vocal performance. BROADWAY CREDITS: The Book of Mormon (swing, understudy, and dance captain) NATIONAL TOUR CREDITS: The Book of Mormon Latter Day Tour (1st national) and the Jumamosi Tour (2nd national) as a swing, understudy, and dance captain. REGIONAL THEATRE CREDITS: Smokey Joe's Café, All Night Strut, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Grease, Ragtime, Sweet Charity, Ain't Misbehavin', Sophisticated Ladies, and many more. TELEVISION/FILM CREDITS: The Originals (choreographer, and appeared on 3 episodes). He is a five time Suzi Bass Award Nominee, with 2 wins. Jevares is also an Ovation Award recipient for Best Male Vocalist. He has written and produced multiple shows for Six Flags Amusement parks across the US and has produced and performed in many industrials around the world. Jevares has been featured in BroadwayWorld.com and Playbill.com. He has worked with longtime friend and collaborator Ronvé on an original musical called ILLA! A Hip Hop Musical, which has had three sold out development runs in Toledo, Atlanta and New York, and was selected to be part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival for two consecutive years - 2015 and 2016. They are the recipients of NYMF's 2016 SHOW SCORE BEST OF FEST Award as well as NYMF's 2015 DEVELOPMENTAL READING AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE. Not only was iLLA featured on FOX-5, NBC-24, PIX-11, BroadwayWorld.com and Time Out New York for two consecutive years, it was also named one of the TOP 10 MUSICALS NOT TO MISS AT NYMF 2015 by Playbill. Jevares recently collaborated with Ronve & Theatreworks USA to create a song and music video for their series Who Tells Your Story, where we pay tribute to Robert Smalls, a man born into slavery who became a Civil War naval hero and South Carolina congressman. In addition, Jevares and Ronvé were commissioned by City Springs Theatre Company in Atlanta, GA to write a fun and educational short musical film called BEAUTIFUL HAIR.Jevares' work will also be featured by Virginia Stage Company and Virginia Public Works in the new musical The Earth Remembers, an original song-cycle that will serve as both education and a celebration of the unique history of the Hampton Roads, Virginia community. ​Jevares' other works include: Greenwood (Musical Theatre Factory), Letters to the President, BAPS (Music for National Tour), The New Girl, and We Love (NAMT 15-minute musical).