• Amanda D'Archangelis (Music & Book)

    Amanda is a composer and performer from New York. She is in the world-renowned BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop. Recent work includes: THE RADIUM GIRLS: A JAW-DROPPING NEW MUSICAL with Sami Horneff and Lisa Mongillo (Directed by Marissa Jaret Winokur, 2022 NAMT Semi-Finalist and five-time winner at The 2021 National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival); SINGLE RIDER (Off-Broadway 2018); COMING ATTRACTION (Wilbury Theatre Group 2019); and THE BREAK (Omaha Creative Institute 2018). In addition to performing her own music, she has composed and arranged for various projects, including several songs for cabarets, web series, podcasts, and film. Her music has been performed at Newfest, Lincoln Center, Prospect Theater Company, The York Theatre Company, NYMF, The Duplex, Green Room 42, The Bitter End, Rockwood Music Hall, Feinstein's 54 Below, Good Morning America, and more.

    For more, visit: @amandadeez on instagram | www.amandadarchangelis.com

  • Sami Horneff (Lyrics & Book)

    A born and raised New Yorker, Sami Horneff is a proud graduate of Brown University and an advanced lyricist and librettist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Recent credits include: THE RADIUM GIRLS: A JAW-DROPPING NEW MUSICAL (Lyrics & Book), which was a 2022 NAMT semi-finalist, a five-time winner at The 2021 National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and recently had its first industry presentation directed by Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur; SINGLE RIDER (Lyrics & Book, Off-Broadway 2018); ArtsPower National Touring Theatre’s JUDY MOODY & STINK (Lyrics); COMING ATTRACTION (Lyrics); THE BREAK (Lyrics, Omaha Creative Institute); A NEVER-ENDING LINE (Lyrics, Off-Broadway); ROCK AND A HARD PLACE (Music & Lyrics); THE UNDER 5ERS web series (Writer/Producer, 2016 Indie Series Award Nominee for Best Original Song); and two original songs for the film A RING FOR CHRISTMAS (UPtv). Her work has been performed at venues and educational institutions fom New York to Paris, as well as on Ken Davenport’s The Producer’s Perspective podcast. She was a 2019 York Theatre Company New/Emerging/Outstanding (NEO) writer and a 2023 Artist in Residence at The Legacy Theatre in Branford, CT. In February 2024, her work was featured as part of Playbill’s Songwriter Series.

    For more info, visit: @sami.horneff on instagram | www.samihorneff.com

  • Lisa Mongillo (Lyrics & Book)

    Lisa is a lyricist, librettist, and playwright from Illinois, now based in Brooklyn. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, an alumna of The College of William & Mary, and a contributing humor writer for Reductress. Credits include: THE RADIUM GIRLS: A JAW-DROPPING NEW MUSICAL (Lyrics & Book, Directed by Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur, 2022 NAMT Semi-Finalist and five-time winner at The 2021 National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival); PARTY PEOPLE (Playwright, Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival); A NEVER-ENDING LINE (Lyrics, Off-Broadway, album released by Broadway Records); WE ARE THE BENJAMIN HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL HORSE GIRLS (Lyrics & Book, Out of the Box Theatrics’ New Works); and HOSPITAL KIDS (Lyrics & Book, Best Book at SoundBites Festival, City Theater Playwriting Finalist); THE COLOR OF THINGS (Lyrics & Book, adapted from the children’s book by Vivienne Shalom). She was selected for the Johnny Mercer Foundation's Songwriters Project and JMF Writers Colony. Her work has been performed from NYC to Paris and beyond, including at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Room, and Green Room 42 and was featured in Playbill’s Songwriter Series. She studied and performed comedy at The Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, and the Annoyance.

    For more info, visit: @lisammongillo on instagram | www.lisamongillo.com