Sheilah Rae | The Waiter Collaborators

The Waiter Collaborators

Jennifer Maisel (co-book, The Waiter) Ms. Maisel's plays have been hailed as 'inventive and sophisticated' and 'human and eternal' with a 'formidable flair for the mysterious' and have been produced nationally and internationally. Goody F***ing Two Shoes was produced at Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival. The Last Seder received the highly regarded Fund for New American Plays award from the Kennedy Center, as well as their pretigious Charlotte Woolard Award. New York's Hypothetical Theatre premiered Jennifer's There or Here last fall to critical acclaim. Jennifer is writing a pilot for ABC Family, and her feature, Prodigal Son, is being produced by Tule River Films.

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.