Freaky Friday - March 21 - March 23, 2019
Wellington C Mepham High School
Crew Who's Who
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Bridget Carpenter
Book
A playwright, television writer, and producer, Carpenter created the 2016 miniseries 11.22.63 for Bad Robot and Hulu from Stephen King's bestselling novel. Prior to 11.22.63, she wrote and co-executive-produced all five seasons of the Peabody Award-winning series Friday Night Lights. She was a Consulting Producer for HBO's Westworld and a Co-Executive Producer for Parenthood. In 2013 she was the Executive Producer/Showrunner for the Sundance Channel drama series The Red Road. She has written several songs for film (Basmati Blues; Dear Dumb Diary) and has adapted Freaky Friday as a movie musical for the Disney Channel, airing in 2018. WGA and Emmy nominations for Friday Night Lights. Her plays Fall, Up, and The Faculty Room are published by Samuel French. An alumnae of New Dramatists, Carpenter received her BA and MFA from Brown University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Chris Harrison, and their children, Rita and Henry.
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Tom Kitt
Music
2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal, also receiving the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score. He is the composer of If/Then (Tony Nom., Outer Critics Nom.); High Fidelity; Bring it On, The Musical (co-composer with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Broadway); Disney's Freaky Friday (Stage Production and Original Disney Channel Movie Musical); Dave; The Winter's Tale, All's Well That Ends Well, and Cymbeline; From Up Here and The Madrid; Orphans; The Retributionists; and As You Like It. Music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, credits include SpongeBob Squarepants, The Musical (Tony Nom., Outer Critics Nom, Drama Desk Nom.); Head Over Heels; Jagged Little Pill; Grease Live!; Rise (NBC); and American Idiot. Tom received an Emmy Award as co-writer (with Lin-Manuel Miranda) for the 2013 Tony Award opening number, "Bigger."
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