Jeffrey Haddow,
Book & Lyrics
Jeffrey Haddow (Book/Lyrics) is a 2009 winner of the BMI Harrington Award for Creative Achievement. His musical revue, SCRAMBLED FEET (with John Driver) ran two years Off-Broadway, was produced as a Showtime special with Madeline Kahn, and is published by SamuelFrench. CHEKHOV IN YALTA (play, also w/Driver), world premiere, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Distinguished Playwriting, produced as a Thames TV special starring Tom Courtenay, published by Samuel French. Other plays include THIN ICE (WPA Theatre), SCULLY & ROYCE (Detroit Repertory Company), and THE DRUNKEN BOAT (Circle Repertory Co.). Other musicals include DUCKS (w/John Driver) Musical Theatre Works, NYC, AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND (w/Thomas Tierney) www.northwindmusical.com TRU Voices, NYC and Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals, Issaqua, WA, and a musical adaptation of THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (w/Thomas Tierney) York Theatre Co. Developmental Reading Series. Jeffrey is a graduate of Northwestern University and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
In addition to the music for SENSE & SENSIBILITY, Neal Hampton’s works for stage include THE CHIMES (book/music/lyrics) which received a staged reading at NOMTI’s Birth of a Musical Festival, incidental music for Lanford Wilson’s BOOK OF DAYS (Canadian premier in Toronto), and additional songs (music/lyrics) for a production of THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL at Gloucester Stage. His arrangement of the SPLEANDOR OF CREATION can be heard in the Columbia Pictures release, MONA LISA SMILE. His compositions for ballet have been performed in US and Europe. His song Something Must Be Wrong With My Mistletoe, was recorded by the cast of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS on the 2006 CAROLS FOR A CURE CD. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and former member the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
Mr. Hampton has conducted concerts with the Savannah Symphony, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Handel and Haydn Society, the Tallahassee Symphony (with Marcus Roberts), the Springfield (MA) Symphony (with Olivia Newton-John), and London's Westminster Philharmonic (concert tour to Nova Scotia). He has premiered numerous contemporary works and conducted theater and opera productions for the Boston Conservatory, Boston University, the College Light Opera Company, and the Hasty Pudding Theatrical. His most recent New York appearance was at Town Hall as conductor of the Stoppard/Previn collaboration, EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR. Previously Associate Director of Orchestras at the Boston University School of Music, he currently serves on the faculties of Brandeis University and Wellesley College as Conductor of the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra and as the Associate Conductor of the Plymouth Philharmonic.
