All You Could Ever Want to Know About Sammy & Dan
SAMMY BUCK (bookwriter & lyricist) and DANIEL S. ACQUISTO (composer) are the 2007 winners of a Talking Broadway Summer Theatre Festival citation for Outstanding New Musical for their show The Seven-Year B*tch and the 2004 winners of The National Music Theater Network and The Theater for the American Musicals’ inaugural New Voices Prize for Like You Like It.

Their current show, THE FROG & THE WITCH, was commissioned by Vital Theatre and is currently playing.

Like You Like It was most recently produced at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, following its sold-out engagement at Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, TX, in collaboration with Sam Houston State University. A winner of The Global Search for New Musicals, the show was also an official selection of the 2006 Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre and an audience favorite at the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Sammy and Daniel have developed Like You Like It at the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where they were introduced by Avenue Q creators Bobby Lopez and Jeff Marx. Like You Like It also was a part of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild’s Jonathan Larson Musical Theatre Fellowship Program, working under the invaluable tutelage of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and mentors David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr.

BUCQUISTO songs have been performed at the N.E.O. Benefit at the York Theatre, Broadway Bound at Merkin Hall, NAMT/ASCAP’s “In The Wings†at the NAMT Festival, and Any Minute Now’s “A Beat Ahead†series. Their song “Be With Me†is featured on the N.E.O. at the York Theatre CD, performed by Matt Cavenaugh, and was performed by Rent's Anthony Rapp in the New Globe's Shakespeare on Broadway.

Individually:

DANIEL S. ACQUISTO (Music) MM in Composition (acoustic and electronic) Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Theatre commissions: Dancing in the Dark, Antigone: The Rock Musical - Studio Arena Theatre, Tada!, nine children’s musicals for Merkin Hall, Indiana State Fair. Incidental theatre music: Subjective Theatre Company, All Out Arts Festival. Non-theatrical commissions: United States Air Force Clarinet Quartet, U. of Cincinnati Men’s Chorus [Shawnee Press, publisher], U. of Cincinnati News Media Dept. He also participated writing ten-minute musicals for The ATrainMusicals, Raw Impressions and FUSE concert theatre group. He has scored three film shorts including Swept, and participated in the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. Daniel is also a music director, percussionist, arranger, orchestrator, music copyist and music educator. Daniel thanks his friends and family for their support and God for everything else. Member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild, Inc.

SAMMY BUCK (Book and Lyrics) is the screenwriter of the upcoming features Red Hook and Fade to White (co-writer), and an alumnus of the USC Filmic Writing program, the Warner Bros. Comedy Writing Workshop and The Groundlings School. Other theatrical work includes the book of Common Grounds (Runner-up, Most Promising New Musical, 2006 NY Musical Theatre Festival; director Igor Goldin) and the play Barry the Hatchet (All Out Arts Festival; Jerome Foundation Grant). An Emmy Award-winning member of the TV Land Digital writing team, he writes for the PRIME blog on tvland.com. He was also a staff writer on the web series Man of the People. Sammy is a member of BMI and The Dramatists Guild, Inc. www.sammybuck.com.

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