Creative Team

Keith Herrmann, Composer/Lyricist, is the composer of the Broadway musical Romance/Romance for which he received a Tony nomination and won an Outer Critics Circle Award.  The show, which received a total of five Tony nominations (including Best Musical Score and Best Show), has enjoyed many productions around the world, including London’s West End (at the Gielgud Theatre) and tours in Australia and Japan.  He was previously represented as composer, vocal arranger and musical supervisor of Onward Victoria, that ran both on and Off-Broadway. A longtime Broadway “resident”, he was the musical conductor of Cats, and performed on its Grammy Award-winning cast album as pianist and synthesist. Other credits include his work as conductor of Whoopee!, conductor and keyboardist of The Magic Show, and musical supervisor of, yes, Censored Scenes from Hong Kong. In addition to his Broadway compositions, he has written numerous jingles, television scores and original musical material for a variety of performers. He scored the ABC-TV After School Special, Taking A Stand, which resulted in an Emmy Award for its creators, and Romance/Romance, for A&E for which he received a Telly Award. He is also represented on the Tri-Star animated holiday video Buster and Chauncey’s Silent Night with collaborator Barry Harman.  Off-Broadway, he served as composer and co-producer of the cult favorite Prom Queens Unchained (whose cast album was released on Original Cast Records.) His musical, Suspect, enjoyed a sold-out run at the New York International Fringe Festival, and Lucky Lindy, a new musical about the aviator hero Charles Lindbergh, was optioned by the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. He recently completed a new musical revue entitled Amazing Sex, with  Barry Harman, which was presented in NYC in an Equity showcase at the Bridge Theatre.  

R.C. Staab, Librettist, recently wrote the lyrics and libretto for the new musical, Fountain of Youth, (www.fountainofyouthmusical.com) which had a fully stage Equity workshop production in February in San Jose and has been submitted to the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.  Since moving to San Francisco several years ago, has had his musical, RM3 (with music by pop composer Ben Folds) produced at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2007 and The Union of Socialist San Francisco produced at the Phoenix Theatre in 2006. He has written several short theater pieces, is a regular contributor at a local writers group and has written for newspapers and magazines.

For a list of The Cast and Crew from the April 2009 workshop production in San Francisco, click here.