Teen Horror Comedy WE ARE THE TIGERS For an Off-Broadway debut in 2019

Some girls would kill to be part of the team! S. Asher Gelman and Matthew Hui announced that WE ARE THE TIGERS, an original pop / rock musical and a teen horror comedy written and composed by Preston Max Allen, will make its first offensive in New York in February 2019. Michael Bello will lead the black comedy on a team of low-ranking cheerleaders, terrorized by a serial killer. Patrick Sulken is the supervisor of music. The actors, the creative team and the theater will soon be announced. www.tigersmusical.com

A new school year means a fresh start for the Tigers, the lowest ranked high school girls' cheerleaders team. The first captain, Riley, is determined to rally the girls for a fresh start at the team pajama party, but the night takes a bloody turn when three Tigers are found mysteriously murdered. Now, a team that does not even know how to land must solve a murder if it wants to have the hope of reaching the regional level or the next morning. Featuring a contagious pop and rock score and a keen wit, this new original musical proves that the highs and lows of a teenager in high school are far more extreme than ever before.

"I'm so excited about We Are The Tigers," said producer S. Asher Gelman. "After attending a show concert at Joe's Pub in August, it was clear that it was a project that was worth getting involved in and I knew we had to move on to something else. The show, written by the spectacular talented Preston Allen, features nine incredible women who rub their faces for two hours.This is one of the most original materials I've encountered, and we can not wait to give him his place on a New York stage. "

WE ARE THE TIGERS received his first workshop at Columbia College Chicago in May 2013. Later that same year, he attended a self-produced workshop at Gene Frankel Theater before holding two 29-hour readings in 2014 and 2015 In August 2015, in development residency at the musical theater factory. In October 2015, Tigers had its first production entirely staged at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles. After receiving the Ovation Award for Best Score, it was also featured in the new series of musical readings from Gallery Players, presented as a concert at Joe's Pub during the summer. 2018.

Preston Max Allen is a writer and composer whose works have been presented at the Lincoln Center, the New Amsterdam Theater, the Signature Theater, the Musical Theater Factory, the New York Music Festival, the Feinstein & # 39; s / 54 Below and the Joe's Pub. Preston has designed, written and composed We Are The Tigers (Hudson Backstage, winner of LA Stage Alliance Ovation, best composition / composition), Never Better (NYMF Development Readings Series) and Carrie 2: The Rage, a parody unauthorized music (Underscore Theater, Nominated Jeff Best New Music). Upcoming projects include music / lyrics / book for Agent 355 (collaborator Jessica Kahkoska) and music / lyrics for Bradical And The Pink Socks.

S. Asher Gelman is a director, choreographer, actor, dancer, playwright and producer. He has written, directed and produced the success of Afterglow, Off-Broadway. Safeword, his next play, will open Off-Broadway in April. A native of Chevy Chase, MD, Asher graduated from Bard College in New York in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Theater and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from George Washington University in Washington DC in 2012. From 2006 to 2016, Asher has lived in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he became one of the founders of The Stage, the first artistic organization of the English-language live performance in Tel Aviv, where he was the first artistic director from 2013 to 2016 He sits on the advisory board of the Richard B. Fisher Center. for the performing arts at Bard College.

Michael Bello is a Cuban-American director who has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at the regional level. He is currently badistant director-in-residence on SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, directed by Tony Award-winning Des McAnuff, who plays at Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. He previously directed We Are The Tigers at the Hudson Backstage Theater, where he received 3 nominations for the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award, including an outstanding music production. In addition, his work has been recognized by the NY Innovative Theater Awards, the Boston IRNE Awards and the NYMF Awards for Excellence. As an badistant director, Michael has created new musicals with Des McAnuff at The Jolla Playhouse, Sheryl Kaller at the Kansas City Repertory Theater, Bill Fennelly at the Dallas Theater Center and Mary Zimmerman at the Huntington Theater Company. BFA in musical theater of Emerson College.

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