Earp Collaborators
ABOUT • GALLERY • REVIEWS • HISTORY • SONG CLIPS • COLLABORATORS
Michele Brourman is the winner of the Johnny Mercer Award for Emerging American Songwriter. Her songs have been recorded by Olivia Newton-John, Donny Osmond, Rita Coolidge, Sheena Easton, Thelma Houston, Michael Feinstein, Heather McCrae, Cleo Laine,
Melissa Errico, and Amanda McBroom. She's written songs for television for the TV series
Cagney & Lacey, Santa Barbara, and Designing Women, and for Jim Henson's Animal Jam, as well as for the critically acclaimed movies, Shiloh and Shiloh Season. Working with lyricist McBroom, Michele composed and produced the music for the songs for numerous sequels to The Land Before Time, as well as for Balto2, WolfQuest, American Tail 4, Night of the Manhattan Monster, The Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, and Hercules and Xena: the Battle for Mount Olympus (nominated for an ANI award for music). Two of the songs from Land Before Time, Journey to Big Water were nominated for DVD Premiere Awards.
Brourman composed all the dance and incidental music for the original Broadway production of Studs Terkel's Working, has scored eight other works for the theatre, and has recently completed a new musical, I Married Wyatt Earp, working with collaborators Sheilah Rae and Thomas West and director Graciele Daniele.
Over the past several years, Brourman has been the musical director for numerous artists, most notably, Dixie Carter and Amanda McBroom. She has created special musical material for singers ranging from Aretha Franklin to Crystal Gayle, was a staff writer for NBC's John Davidson Show, and played piano in Bob Dylan's band.
She has two teenage sons, Noah and Luke, and has just completed her first CD
3Fools and Little Children.
Thomas Edward West has worked extensively in theatre as a playwright, director, actor and administrator in Off-Broadway, Off-Off- Broadway, Regional Theatre and Stock. He has directed over fifty professional productions, including Finding Rose…, The Little Foxes and The Changeling Off-Broadway and regional productions of new plays and classics, including Othello and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Boston Shakespeare Company); Scapin, A History of the American Film and The School for Wives (Asolo Theatre); What the Butler Saw and Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre (New State) and the touring musical version of Harriet The Spy. He is also the co-author (with Vincent Sardi) of Off the Wall at Sardi’s, a coffee table book featuring the famous caricatures from Sardi’s Restaurant. Mr. West has had many plays, adaptations and translations commissioned and produced across the country. Among his current projects are co-writing the book for I Married Wyatt Earp, a new musical (readings Berkshire Theater Festival and ASCAP) and the book for another new musical The Enchanted Cottage, presented at the 2002 National Alliance of Musical Theatre’s new musical festival. He is currently Artistic Director of Ariel Repertory Theatre (a new touring company) and has served as Artistic Director of the Asolo Touring Theatre and Associate Artistic Director of the Asolo Theatre Company. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from Florida State University.