The Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series presents..
Ink & Paint: A New Musical
Inspired by real events, Ink & Paint follows five women artists at Walt Disney Studios in the 1930s and beyond, whose ranks included first- and second-generation immigrants, a single mother and architect, a record-breaking pilot, a concept artist, and Disney’s first credited woman animator. They tell the true story of the company's first all-women story unit in a madcap mashup of mid-century American history, the golden age of hand-drawn animation, and the wild, wisecracking women who fought tooth, nail, and paintbrush for their place in it.
A short version of Ink & Paint premiered Off-Broadway as part of Emerging Artist Theatre's 2023 New Work Series, which was a Time Out New York Critics' Pick. The full-length musical was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Live & In Color Musical Incubator and Wild Imaginings' 2024 Epiphanies Festival. The piece will also be featured in the 2024 SheLA Festival.
It’s a win-win-win 4th of July weekend evening of theatre -– an amazing, and important, evening of theatre, a lovely wine-and-nibbles post-show reception with the cast, and support of the Playhouse Benefit Campaign!
A short version of Ink & Paint premiered Off-Broadway as part of Emerging Artist Theatre's 2023 New Work Series, which was a Time Out New York Critics' Pick. The full-length musical was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Live & In Color Musical Incubator and Wild Imaginings' 2024 Epiphanies Festival. The piece will also be featured in the 2024 SheLA Festival.
It’s a win-win-win 4th of July weekend evening of theatre -– an amazing, and important, evening of theatre, a lovely wine-and-nibbles post-show reception with the cast, and support of the Playhouse Benefit Campaign!
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Danielle E. Moore (Book, Music & Lyrics) is a writer/composer and creative producer. Musicals: Audrey Hepburn concept musical Audrey (Off-Broadway Residency; Bold New Musical Voices honoree from Helen Hayes Award-winning company Creative Cauldron; Finalist, Winter Park Playhouse’s Florida Festival of New Musicals; licensed internationally by BroadwayDNA), Ink & Paint (presented by EAT’s 2023 New Work Series, which was a Time Out New York Critics’ Pick; Semi-Finalist, Live & In-Color Musical Incubator & Wild Imaginings’ 2024 Epiphanies Festival; 2024 SheLA Festival), and CROSSOVER (Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Theater to See This Week”). Awards/Honors: Finalist, 2021 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project; Rooftop Writers Initiative of Broadway’s Merrily We Roll Along, the American Theatre Wing, and the Stephen Sondheim Foundation; Nautilus Music-Theater Composer-Librettist Studio; PlayGround-NY’s Best New Dramatists; Kumu Kahua Theatre / Bamboo Ridge Press Award. Grants: University of Pennsylvania Year of Innovation; City of Philadelphia Illuminate the Arts; NYSCA/A.R.T. New York Creative Opportunity Fund. IG: @danie.moore
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Emma Bilderback (Dramaturg) is a freelance dramaturg and AEA Stage Manager. She is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam’s International Dramaturgy program, where she researched the connections between our contemporary world and the theatrical works of Ancient Greece. She is a Co-Vice President of Anti-Oppression for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas–a multinational non-profit that holds the belief that theater is a vital art form that has the power to nourish, educate, and transform individuals and their communities and that dramaturgy is central to the process of theater-making. www.emmabilderback.com
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GLG (Producer) is the first (and only) U.S.-based organization dedicated to developing and producing musical theater written and composed by women and nonbinary artists, with the goal of closing the gender gap in musical authorship. Founded in 2019, GLG's work has been developed and produced at Ivy League universities, Off-Broadway, and at award-winning regional theaters. Their productions have since received national attention, having been featured in outlets including Playbill, Town & Country, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. www.greenlightgroupproductions.com
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The Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series is an innovative program that presents extremely limited engagements of new and developing works by emerging and renowned local, national and international artists. Solo shows, concerts, spoken word and poetry nights, dance evenings, performance art and full productions, give voice to new material and artists who might otherwise not have a platform for their works.
Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, and by Playhouse PALS.
Santa Monica Playhouse programs are supported in part by generous grants from the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, and by Playhouse PALS.
Santa Monica Playhouse Reserves the Right to Cancel or Reschedule Performances Without Prior Notice.