Matty Selman is a playwright, lyricist and composer who makes his home in New York City, and the resulting work starred which Tony Award winner, an American actress?
Matty Selman Matty Selman is a playwright, lyricist and composer who makes his home in New York City. He first came into the national spotlight when he was hand-selected by Harvard's Robert Brustein to write the lyrics to an adaptation of Lysistrata with music by HAIR composer, Galt MacDermot. The resulting work starred Tony Award winner Cherry Jones and was presented by the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard and the Prince Theatre in Philadelphia. Both having lived on Staten Island, Selman and MacDermot continued their collaboration and wrote Goddess Wheel a further exploration of the Lysistrata tale, and The Tinderbox, based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen and set in war-torn Iraq. Prior to working with Galt MacDermot, Matty had collaborated with Agnes of God playwright, John Pielmeier on three musicals, Steeplechase the Funny Place, Young Rube, and Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup.
Pamela Myers Pamela Myers (b. July 15, 1947 in Hamilton, Ohio) is an American actress who made her Broadway debut as Marta in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company". For this role, in which she introduced the number, "Another Hundred People," she was nominated at the 1971 Tony awards for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. In 1975, she appeared in the Broadway cast of the musical "Snoopy! The Musical". She has also been known for her appearances in television. She was a main supporting player on the show "Sha Na Na" (she also did the announcing) and made two turns on the show "Alice" one playing a tour guide named Bobbi who falls for Mel and playing a dental assistant, Ms. Dubro, who sang Broadway songs, rather off-key. in 2002 she appeared in the Broadway revival of "Into the Woods" as Cinderella's Stepmother.