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John Herin & Frederick Alden Terry

FLAT EARTH SOCIETY featured in Prospect Theater Company's MOVE MEANT

2/9/2020

We're excited to announce that our new 10-minute dance musical, FLAT EARTH SOCIETY, will appear in Prospect Theater Company's latest Musical Theater Lab presentation, MOVE MEANT. The musical will be directed by Dev Bondarin with musical direction by Abel Garriga, and it will feature dazzling original choreography by Tony Williams II. The cast includes Maya Addie, Logan Anthony, Sara Brophy, Michelle Liu Coughlin, Raheem Wallace, and Jeff Williams. There are performances on Monday, February 17th at 7pm and Tuesday, February 18th at 7pm at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater at 405 West 55th Street at 9th Avenue. See the Prospect Theater Company website for tickets.

Herin/Terry "Make Something New" for New York Innovative Theatre Awards

9/15/2019

We are honored to kick off this year's New York Innovative Theatre Awards presentation with our latest song, "Make Something New." Now in its 15th year, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards honors Off-Off Broadway productions and recognizes the individual artists who write, direct, design, stage-manage and star in those productions. Our song celebrates the creativity and ingenuity of these artists, and will be performed by Lizette Cruz, Ilana Gabrielle, Jay Paranada, and Tony Perry with musical direction by Minhui Lee. The awards ceremony will be directed by Dev Bondarin and Cotton Wright.

Congratulations to all of the nominees!

ASTORIA STORIES cabaret will feature new Terry/Herin song

6/26/2019

Our latest song, "Strange American," will be included in Astoria Stories: Songs and Stories of Immigration at Astoria Performing Arts Center on June 28th and 29th. This "docu-cabaret" will also include new work by Michael Cooper, EllaRose Chary & Brandon James Gwinn, Seth Christenfeld & James Ballard, Cheryl L. Davis, Tia DeShazor & John Sloan III, Mrinalini Kamath, Naomi Matlow, Teresa Lotz & Tidtaya Sinutoke, Katya Stanislavskaya, Kathleen Warnock, and Marcus Yi & Minhui Lee. The evening will feature songs and scenes based on newspaper articles, original stories, and verbatim interviews with immigrants and first and second generation Americans living in Western Queens.

Directors: Dev Bondarin and Jesse Marchese
Music Director: James Higgins
Research & Interview Team: Eva Casey, Lisa Huberman, Kasha Pazdar, and Shayla Thomas

Time: Friday June 28th and Saturday June 29th at 8pm
Place: Broom Tree Theatre, Astoria First Presbyterian Church (23-35 Broadway between 23rd Street and Crescent Street)

Tickets are FREE!

BUYING TIME will be featured in NAAP's Discover: New Musicals 2016

11/28/2016

We're pleased to announce that our one-woman, ten-minute musical, Buying Time, will be presented as part of the National Asian Artists Project's Discover: New Musicals evening. Founded by Baayork Lee, Steven Eng, and Nina Zoie Lam, the National Asian Artists Project provides performance and educational opportunities to artists of Asian descent, and we're excited to get to work with them on this project. We hope you'll join us on Monday, December 12th!

Buying Time
by John Herin (Book & Lyrics) & Frederick Alden Terry (Music)

Featuring Kai An Chee
Director: Raul Aranas
Musical Director: Jose Simbulan
Stage Manager: Amy Smith Goodman

Monday, December 12
7:30pm
at the June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street, NYC, between 8th and 9th)
$18 Suggested Donation
email: Discover@NAAProject.org to reserve tickets

Other featured works:

Enjoy the Ride
by Jason Purdy (Book & Lyrics) & Yan Li (Music)
When You've Got a Gift
by Kathleen Wrinn (Book & Lyrics) & Minhui Lee (Music)
You Gave Me a Sheep
by Lauren Taslitz (Book & Lyrics) & Emily Chiu (Music & Lyrics)

NEWS TO ME at The Times Center

7/23/2015

News to Me

Our latest song, "Heroes of Angola," will be performed at The Times Center on Friday night as part of Prospect Theater Company's Teen Musical Revue. The evening features original songs based on recent news articles in the New York Times. Our song was inspired by a recent article about an operation in Angola that employs trained Gambian pouched rats to sniff out buried land mines. Articles about squirrels, retiring ballet dancers, and robot dogs inspired some of the other songs in the show. It promises to be a fun evening featuring many talented young performers premiering original work. Come see the future of Broadway!

Tickets are available through the Prospect Theater Company website.

Join us for a concert reading of ETHAN FROME

5/13/2015

We are happy to announce that our opera, Ethan Frome, will be given a concert reading at the National Opera Center on May 20th, 2015 at 7:30pm.

ETHAN FROME
An Opera in 2 Acts
Based on the novel by Edith Wharton
Music by Frederick Alden Terry
Libretto by John Herin

Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 at 7:30pm
The National Opera Center, Rehearsal Hall
330 Seventh Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, New York

Ethan Frome: Keith Phares, baritone
Zeena Frome: Blythe Gaissert, mezzo soprano
Mattie Silver: Jennifer Aylmer, soprano
Denis Eady: Ryan Casperson, tenor
Andrew Hale: Scott Russell, bass
Mrs. Homan: Monica Soto-Gil, mezzo soprano
Ruth Varnum: Jeanne Gérard, soprano

Conductor: Ted Taylor
Pianist: Scott Rednour
Director: Pat Diamond

Presented by OperaHon Productions

Admission is free, but seating is limited. The performance will be followed by a brief reception. Please RSVP by clicking the link below.

Tickets are still available for AVAC MEMORIES on December 8th

12/5/2014

Here's the promo video for AVAC with some background on the show and some shots of our awesome cast. AVAC Memories is being presented by Theatre Now New York as part of the SOUND BITES festival.

AVAC MEMORIES is back!

11/17/2014

AVAC Memories Sound Bites

AVAC Memories, our 10-minute musical about the Roosevelt Island garbage-handling system will have an encore performance as part of Theatre Now New York's SOUND BITES Festival on December 8th at the 47th Street Theatre. The cast features Jennifer Blood, Sarah Corey, Steven Eng, Greg Horton, and Aaron Riesebeck. Dev Bondarin is directing, with musical direction by Jeff Theiss. We're excited to revisit this piece and thrilled to be a part of Sound Bites. The festival is a benefit for TNNY and supports their programming. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased on the TNNY website. We hope you'll join us for what should be a fun evening of short musical theatre works.

Alden's music featured in APAC's production of IN THE BONES

11/5/2014

In The Bones

Alden recently composed the score for the world premiere production of In The Bones, a new play by Cody Daigle, at Astoria Performing Arts Center. This powerful new play, directed by frequent HerinTerry collaborator, Dev Bondarin, is opening this Friday night and running through November 22nd. Visit the APAC website for more details and to purchase tickets.

About the play:

When a soldier home from serving in Afghanistan ends his life, grief settles over his family and the partner he leaves behind. In a series of scenes moving ahead a year at a time, loss transforms a family and sorrow finds a home in the bones of those left behind.

Coming soon: EPHEMERA

9/13/2014

Alden's latest project, Ephemera, is having a workshop production on October 8th at Iguana. From the press release:

Ephemera: Part immersive theater, part dance, part concert, all new

Ephemera is a dance theater event conceived by choreographer Avital Asuleen and composer Alden Terry.

The event will take place at bar venues throughout New York City, and will ask the audience to join seven dancers and a band of four musicians as they experience a night of drinking, flirting, and salaciousness.

A site-specific theatrical event. 7 dancers. 4 musicians. Workshop production taking place October 8th, at 7:30 and 9PM, at Iguana NYC. Join us!

Visit the Facebook page for more details or click below for ticket information.

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