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Barbara Schottenfeld, composer, lyricist, librettist, performer, writes for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and also performs her one-woman cabaret act of original songs. Critically acclaimed as a composer/lyricist/librettist, she is described as "diversely talented" (The New York Times), "a true verbal artist" (New York Magazine's John Simon) and "a megatalent" (UPI). As a lyricist, Ms. Schottenfeld has collaborated with comedian Steve Allen and legendary composers Henry Mancini, Burton Lane, and Jule Styne. One of Schottenfeld's signature comedy tunes, "I Want You to be the Mother of the Children I'm Not Sure I Want to Have," along with the songs of Berlin, Arlen and Sondheim, can be heard on Broadway's Marin Mazzie and Jason Danielly's recently released PS Classic CD, "Opposite You."

Ms. Schottenfeld's newest full-length work is Hot and Sweet, the story of an all girl band in 1945 Chicago. Inspired by in-depth interviews with players of the era, the show has generated tremendous interest with regional theatres. First presented at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival, Hot and Sweet was then produced at the Millard Theatre, University of Hartford. Faith Prince, Tovah Feldshuh, K.T. Sullivan, Kerry Butler, and Barbara Walsh are among those who have performed in the piece. Barbara Schottenfeld began writing for Musical Theater at Princeton University, where she was a composer, lyricist, and performer for the renowned Triangle Club. An Honors Graduate and University Scholar, she penned the book, music, lyrics and orchestrations for I Can't Keep Running In Place as her undergraduate thesis. Picked up by La Mama E.T.C., the show then became a long running off-Broadway hit at the Westside Arts Theatre. Published by Samuel French, the Original Cast Recording stars Helen Gallagher, Phyllis Newman, and Marcia Rodd. I Can't Keep Running In Place is produced throughout the world. Ms. Schottenfeld's musical Sit Down and Eat Before Our Love Gets Cold, was first presented at the 18th Street Theatre in New York City, then moved to Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut. It starred Marin Mazzie, Scott Bakula, and Josie De Guzman. Stuart Ross followed with a highly successful production at the 800 seat Phoenix Theater in Arizona. A second New York production, with John Wesley Shipp and Ms. Schottenfeld, played to sold-out houses at the Kaleidoscope Theater. It was for this musical that Ms. Schottenfeld received the first of two NEA Opera-Musical Theatre Awards. A second NEA award was given for Catch Me If I Fall (book, music, lyrics), which also received a 1987 Drama League Award. Developed at Ensemble Studio Theater and the Eugene O'Neill Center, the musical had a highly successful run at the Nickerson Theater in Norwall, Mass., then moved for its Off-Broadway run at The Promenade Theater. The Original Cast Recording was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard. The most recent production was staged at the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College, in Hartford, CT. Ms. Schottenfeld has performed her tour de force one-woman cabaret show, SchottenSongs , at Lincoln Center, the Supper Club in New York City, the Cinegrill in L.A., and the Quick Center for the Arts in Fairfield, CT. She is often accompanied by her husband, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Paul Bogaev. Schottenfeld wrote special material and the opening number for Ann Reinking's One More Song, One More Dance at the Joyce Theatre. She has received fourteen ASCAP Musical Theater Awards, and her work has been performed in New York at The Promenade Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Mama, The Theater at St. Peter's Church, The American Place Theater, The Jewish Repertory Theater, The Actor's Studio, The Eighteenth Street Theater, and The Kaleidoscope Theater. Ms. Schottenfeld is a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Dramatist Guild. She received her dramatic and musical training at Princeton University, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and the Berklee College of Music. She has been a panelist for the NEA (in Opera-Musical Theater) in Washington and currently serves on the board of the Princeton Triangle Club. Schottenfeld is currently working on several new works. She is also the proud mother of three beautiful boys.

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