
Rachel is a volunteer mentor for TDF's Open Doors program, a visiting instructor at Yale School of Drama, and adjunct faculty member of NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. Residencies, fellowships, commissions include: Eugene O'Neill National Theater Center, Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Manhattan Theatre Club, Deaf West, McCarter Theatre, Playwrights Horizons. Regional: Guthrie, Little House on the Prairie Center Theater Group, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (Los Angeles Ovation Award) London: Blood Drive. Rachel Sheinkin (Book) Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Tony, Drama Desk awards) Off Broadway: Striking 12 (Lucille Lortel nomination), Off-Off: Serenade.

The production, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with. His most recent projects include Elegies, A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee which ran on Broadway and has been produced nationally and internationally, as well. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre May 2, 2005. A graduate of Williams College where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship for Musical Composition, Finn now teaches a weekly master class at the NYU Tisch Graduate Program in Musical Theatre Writing. On May 2nd, the Hyattsville Middle School was set to open their production of the musical 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The children had rehearsed for 3 months, giving up evenings. Finn has written for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Yorker. Finn provided the music and lyrics for the Ace Award-winning HBO cartoon "Ira Sleeps Over," "Tom Thumb and Thumbelina," "Pokey Little Puppy's First Christmas," and, with Ellen Fitzhugh, two "Brave little Toaster" cartoons. Because Tony rules state as a default that actors whose names are above the title are 'lead' and actors. 16, which will be the final performance of a total of seven shows. 6 Whos the lead of the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Posted: 5/15/17 at 11:03am. The Broadway Production opened in 2005 and was directed by.

Recently, he wrote Painting You for Love's Fire, a piece commissioned and performed bye the Acting Company, based on Shakepeare's sonnets. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee opened its doors Oct. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is a musical comedy with Music & Lyrics by William Finn, with a book by Rachel Sheinkin. His musical, Romance in Hard Times, was presented at the Public Theater. Finn wrote the lyrics to Graciela Daniele's Tango Apasionado (music by the great Astor Piazzolla) and, with Michael Starobin, the music to Lapine's version of The Winter's Tale. He has also written and composed In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, two Los Angeles Drama Critic's Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship in Musical Composition). Finn is the writer and composer of Falsettos, for which he received two Tony Awards, Best Book of a Musical (with James Lapine) and Best Original Score.
