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Meet

The Team

Kevin Hammonds

Book and Lyrics

Kristin Bair

Music

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Kevin and Kristin are an award-winning writing duo who have been working together since they were paired for their first assignment in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in 2009. In 2015, the BMI Foundation honored them with the Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement for their writing, including their original musical comedy, Up and Away.

 

Up and Away’s world premiere was produced by Pittsburgh CLO in January 2018.  It had an extended sixteen-week run, and was the featured performance of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Spring Conference, and the headlined event of Pittsburgh CLO’s Spark Festival of New Works. The show had its West Coast premiere in January 2020 at the Broadway Rose Theatre Company in Portland, Oregon, and was nominated for multiple Portland theatre awards, winning three.  Up and Away received development support from Apples & Oranges Arts THEarte ACCELERATOR, Manhattan Musical Theatre Lab at the Snapple Theater in New York, and the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust.

 

Kevin and Kristin's other shows include a musical adaptation of acclaimed photographer Hinda Schuman’s memoir Dear Shirley. Philadelphia Theatre Company was awarded a 2020 NAMT Writers Residency Grant to develop Dear Shirley, presenting a staged reading of the show in July 2020. Dear Shirley was a finalist for Theatre Latte Da’s Next Generation Commission Grant and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.  They also have received commissions for projects with URock Theatricals and New York City Children’s Theatre. Their short musicals The Sell and The Phobia Phobes were produced by Prospect Theater Company for their Musical Theatre Lab and New York Musical Festival Summer Intensive. 

With London composer Charles Miller, Kevin had a successful run of their musical “When Midnight Strikes” at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in London, where it was nominated for an Off-West End award for Best Musical (original cast recording available on iTunes). Other musicals include Brenda Bly: Teen Detective (critically acclaimed during its run at London's Bridewell Theatre), No One in the World, Mr. Christmas and Hope - all available for licensing through Concord Theatricals.  In 2017, Kevin was the recipient of the Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement.

 

Kevin also is Creative Director at Right Angle Entertainment. Currently, his immersive production of The Magicians Table is playing to rave reviews in London. In addition, he produces CLUE: A Walking Mystery ("Best Immersive Experience in Chicago") which had two successful runs in Chicago and Boston, and will be opening in 9 new cities across the country this year.  

 

Kristin's adaptation of the award-winning children's book series Frank and Bean (A.J. Freeman, lyricist) was commissioned by the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts for Lincoln Center's "Summer for the City" and performed for sold-out audiences in 2024. Her mini musical Dustin Gavins P.I. (lyricist – Sarah Ziegler) was commissioned by 4@15 Musicals Program in conjunction with UC- Irvine, and performed in 2016. Her songs have been featured in the BMI Smoker Series and at Feinstein’s 54 Below, The Duplex and New York Theatre Barn.

Marlo Hunter

Director/Choreographer

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Marlo Hunter is a theater & film director. She made her feature film directorial debut with American Reject in 2022 (Amazon and Apple+). She’s currently helming the Ever After musical with music by Zina Goldrich, lyrics by Marcy Heisler, and book by Kate Wetherhead, produced by Kevin McCollum, which will have a soon-to-be-announced regional production in spring '26. Marlo has directed, choreographed, and developed new work at Second Stage, Long Wharf, Williamstown, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Pittsburgh CLO, and Bay Street, among others. She is the winner of the Callaway Award for Unlock’d, which she directed & choreographed Off-Broadway. Marlo recently directed Mystic Christmas for Hallmark, which premiered in winter 2023 (starring Jessy Schram, Chandler Massey & Patti Murin), and Trivia at St. Nick's, which premiered in winter 2024 (starring Tammin Sursok, Brant Daugherty). This past fall she directed and choreographed the World Premiere of A Hanukkah Carol, or Gelt Trip! The Musical at Round House Theatre in DC (Daryl Roth & Jim Kierstead, commercial producers). Upcoming:  Director/Choreographer of Millennials Are Killing Musicals by Nico Juber (LA workshop, soon-to-be-announced production).

Contact Us

Please direct rights inquiries and script requests to:

Amy Wagner

Literary Division - Agent

Stewart Talent

1430 Broadway, Suite 601

New York, NY  10018

T 212.315.5505 ext. 153  

Amy.Wagner@StewartTalent.com

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