The evening will feature

Emily Patt

Emily Patt is a singer/songwriter from Chicago, IL. She’s currently a freshman at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Her songwriting is influenced by a variety of genres including folk, country, and pop

Ethan Riordan

Ethan Riordan is currently a junior at Yale University, majoring in History with a concentration in politics and law. He studies musical theater composition in the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theatre at Yale. His original song cycle, “Flicker,” premiered at the Green Room 42 in August of 2019

Scott Etan Feiner

Scott Etan Feiner (b. 1997) is a musical theatre composer, lyricist, and pianist. He was the 2020 recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, Yale University’s highest arts award., and was the first ever recipient of the SigWorks Signature Theatre/Yale Composer Fellowship in 2019 for his first musical Saturdays (with librettist Walker Caplan), which was also performed in 2018 as part of New York Musical Festival’s Developmental Reading Series and was a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Musical Theatre Conference. His second musical Rumspringa (with librettist Walker Caplan, dir. Annette Jolles) was developed through the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theatre at Yale University and staged as a curricular production in December 2019. Scott holds a B.A. in Music & Theatre Studies from Yale University and a diploma in Composition from Juilliard Pre-College.

Anna Dagmar

Anna Dagmar is a NYC-based pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. Dagmar made her Broadway debut in 2017 as a sub Pianist and Conductor for Sara Bareilles’ musical Waitress. Her original song, “Mercy,” was commissioned by The Canales Project and performed at the National Gallery in 2018 and at the Public Theater in 2019. “Mercy,” honors the work of Sister Marilyn Lacey and Mercy Beyond Borders, a foundation which supports women and girls through education and business training in war-torn or impoverished regions of South Sudan and Haiti. Dagmar served as sub Pianist, Conductor and Vocal Coach fo Antigone in Ferguson, a gospel adaptation of Sophocles’ classic play which brings new light and hope to modern criminal justice reform. Dagmar is a two-time Gold Prize winner of the mid-Atlantic Songwriting Contest, a National Kerrville New Folk and Rocky Mountain Folk Festival finalist, a composer in the BMI Writing Workshop and a member of Maestra. She has released four albums of original songs, including Satellite (2012) which has spun on over 100 folk stations across the country and charted #5 on the National Roots Music Report. She holds a B.M. in Jazz Performance and Music Education from the Eastman School of Music and is currently pursuing a master's in Conducting at Hunter College. www.AnnaDagmar.com

Simone Allen -

Simone Allen is a songwriter, music director, pianist, and arranger. She has collaborated with artists such as Shaina Taub, Dave Malloy, Or Matias, Daryl Waters, Tarik Trotter, Alex Lacamoire, Mike Brun, Ellen Winter, Mark Sonnenblick, Max Vernon, and Bandits On The Run. She has performed at venues such as Joe’s Pub, The Green Room 42, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall, Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, New World Stages, and Ars Nova. NY Theater: Octet (Signature Theatre), The Cher Show (Broadway/Chicago), The Suffragists (Public Theater), Black No More (The New Group), One Way (NAMT), Devotion (Signature Theatre VA), LadyShip (NYMF), Folk Wandering (Pipeline), The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov Project), Letters to the President (Cooper Union), New Songs Now (Rattlestick), Twelfth Night (Young Vic), Cruel Intentions, As You Like It (Public Works), Moulin Rouge (lab). BA Music Tufts University.