TODD ALMOND & KATE DOUGLAS IN CONCERT:
THE LUCKY FEW

Join songwriters and performers Todd Almond and Kate Douglas for a special concert celebration of their new musical, The Lucky Few. It’s New Year’s Eve, 1959, an explosive moment in American history. The U.S. has entered the space race; Lenny Bruce appeared on NBC for the first time; Miles Davis began recording Kind of Blue; and somewhere in South Dakota, Jane is making music nobody has ever heard before.

Kate Douglas is a writer, composer, performer, and gardener. Recent work includes The Apiary (2023 Second Stage New Voices Series, 2022 O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Against Women & Music! with Grace McLean (The Civilians), and The Ninth Hour with Shayfer James (The Met Cloisters).

Her work has been developed at the SPACE on Ryder Farm, New York Stage & Film, Millay Arts, Rhinebeck Musicals, and the New Musicals Lab at Ferguson Center, among others. She has been a finalist for Jonathan Larson Grant, the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting, and the Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award. She is an alum of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, GTG Speakers’ Corner Writers Group, The Orchard Project Greenhouse and BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshops. Most recently, Kate signed with Kobalt Music Publishing.

Performance credits include Punchdrunk's Sleep No More (where she also held the title of Associate Artist), Third Rail's The Grand Paradise, The Ninth Hour, and Kansas City Choir Boy starring Todd Almond and Courtney Love (Premiere & Tour).

She is currently a Colt Coeur Resident Artist and is on faculty at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. This year, she will complete her certificate in Sustainable Garden Design with the New York Botanical Garden. For more, visit www.katedouglasprojects.com

Todd Almond is an acclaimed performer, songwriter, and playwright. His recent performance on Broadway in Girl from the North Country was called “stunning” by The Washington Post, and “roof-raising, uplifting, and invigorating” by Hollywood Reporter. His musical The Odyssey was hailed as “brash, funny and heart-stirring” by The New York Times. His theater piece Kansas City Choir Boy was called “awesome, slyly punk rock” by Rolling Stone. Todd Almond is known for his singular songwriting in addition to his work as an accomplished performer. He recently toured the U.S. in his original musical Kansas City Choir Boy starring alongside rock icon Courtney Love, and starred in three of his original musicals at the famed Delacorte Theater in Central Park (The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, and The Odyssey). His musical Girlfriend – based on the Matthew Sweet album of the same title – is a perennial favorite for theater companies around the country, and he is currently collaborating with producer David Foster on a new, original musical. He has previously collaborated with Sarah Ruhl (Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical), Jenny Schwartz (Iowa), Laura

Benanti (In Constant Search for the Right Kind of Attention), Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz (Twohander), Kelli O’Hara (Live at Carnegie Hall), and Andrew Rannells (Live from Lincoln Center). As a composer and orchestrator, Almond has written and arranged music for Noises Off! on Broadway, Iowa at Playwrights Horizons, Fucking A at Signature Theatre, and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Lincoln Center Theater, Kelli O’Hara Live at Carnegie Hall, and the recent film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again. Other New York acting credits include Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons, People are Wrong at the Vineyard, Piece of Meat opposite Sherie Rene Scott, and Law and Order: SVU. Currently, Todd can also be seen starring in Gossip Girl on HBO Max. As a musical director, Almond tours with Laura Benanti and Judy Kuhn, and recently made his PBS debut with Andrew Rannells, Live From Lincoln Center. www.toddalmond.com

About the Circa 1799 Barn

The Circa 1799 Barn in Ancramdale offers an intimate setting for music, theater, and other cultural events. Situated on 10 acres of land, visitors can enjoy sweeping views of the Taconics, verdant fields, and woods that stretch out to the horizon.