CREATIVE TEAM

composer & lyricist, Michael Mott

Michael Mott is an internationally critically acclaimed award winning musical theatre composer/ lyricist, pop songwriter and vocal producer with over 15 million streams to his name. Mr. Mott is a top ten Billboard charting artist and songwriter who has been heralded one of Playbill’s “Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know.” His original musicals include In The Light, A Faustian Tale, Sometimes Love and Mob Wife, A Mafia Comedy. His work has appeared on multiple television programs including three current Netflix shows: Love Is Blind (Season 8), Owning Manhattan (Season 2) and Temptation Island (Seasons 1 & 2). He has written, produced and recorded three full length studio albums of his original theatre, pop and jazz material sung by some of the best vocalists from Broadway, television and film. His discography includes Where The Sky Ends, Abandoned Heart and The Only One, plus several dance remix EPs, including Gone (feat. Ben Fankhauser), which has surpassed over 4.5 million streams on Spotify, Christmas, Will You Stay? (feat. Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes), The Impossible (feat. Matt Bloyd), Here and Now (feat. Pia Toscano) and several other singles. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College, is an Advanced Member of the BMI Musical Theatre Writers Workshop and Voting Member of the Recording Academy.

book writer, Kate Mulley

Kate Mulley is an internationally acclaimed playwright, librettist/lyricist, producer, and dramaturg whose work has been performed on four continents. Her musical Razorhurst, written with composer Andy Peterson, was commissioned by and had its world premiere at Luna Stage. Razorhurst, which musicalizes the lives of Sydney gang leaders Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, received its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney. Other current projects include Female Complaints, a musical about Inez Burns, a pre-Roe San Francisco abortionist, written with Tina deVaron, which has been developed at Catwalk Art Residency, Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat and VoxLab at Dartmouth College. Her play The Tutor, originally produced in the New York International Fringe Festival, has been translated into Mandarin and performed at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and published in Mandarin. Kate facilitates The Motor Company Writer’s Lab, is a writing mentor with Girls Write Now and the PEN Prison Writing mentorship program and was awarded the 2023 PEN America/ L’Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship. She is the editor of Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre (Routledge, 2024) and a founding member of Vox Theater. She graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in Theater and History, received an MA in Writing for Performance at Goldsmiths College, London, and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia. Originally from Boston, Kate lives in New York.

book writer, Nathan Wright

A  New York based playwright, performer and director, Mr. Wright is the Artistic Director of In Absentia Productions and in addition to writing the book for In The Light, a Faustian tale, he created Manifesto: the Diaghilev Project, a collage theatre piece with director Nadia Foskolou. He directed Charles Gershman’s The Waiting Game which premiered at 59e59 Theatres in 2019 after an award-winning production at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Nathan was a collaborator on the TEAM’s Architecting (directed by Rachel Chavkin, Winner 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, PS 122 and the Public Theatre Under the Radar). His own plays include Peninsula (Winner of the 2013 Fringe Award at NYC Fringe), Naked Fish (Winner 2007 National Playwriting Award,), Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Card Table Theatre, Lawrence, Kansas) Distance (Plan-B Theatre, Salt Lake City), and Homo Rapture (Kenyon College). Additionally, he has translated Russian playwright Katia Rubina's Family Happiness (O'Neil Playwright's Center). He holds an MFA in Theatre from Columbia University.