Alan Cancelino
Alan Cancelino is a NYC based composer working in many styles of music. In collaboration with Jenne Wason, his recent shows include "Bingo City ", developed in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop under moderator Maury Yeston and featured on Theatre Row in a New York Musical Theater Festival 2005 showcase directed by Leigh Silverman starring Anita Gillette and Randy Jones of The Village People . And the daring new musical drama "The White Rose" which has had readings and workshops under the direction of Leah C. Gardiner at The Public Theater in NYC, Wright State University in Ohio, and presented in concert form at the inaugural New York Musical Theater Festival in 2004 at The Tank. He also collaborated with Wason on the relationship musical “The Terrifying Prospect of Marriage and all it entails!” which premiered at The Player’s theatre in New York.
Other collaborations and more recent works include the short musical “Party Lines” by Winter Miller which premiered in the 2006 Ignite festival at the Ohio Theatre in SoHo. And music for the Edward Albee award winning play ‘Kansas Faust” by Anne Phelan.
In early 2007 he scored the Japanese film "Sight Unseen" and is currently working on a cabaret show "What's The Point" with Hector Coris that premiered February 2008 in NYC for a limited run and is running again in NYC this September and Montreal in October. The show was also produced in Cincinnati by the Know Theatre. Alan has recently started writing a new musical “Flake of Snow” in collaboration with lyricist Mark Garcia and is happy to announce his show "The White Rose" will have a reading at the York Theatre in January 2009.
Aside from theatre, Alan is slowly inching his way back into film scoring which was his concentration at Berklee College of Music in Boston where he was a recipient of the Chick Corea prize for a promising young composer. He is working on a cd of original ballads and a collection of Piano ensemble pieces. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and an alumnus of the Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop at BMI.
His work has been seen at The Public Theater, New Dramatists, NYMF,BMI, The Tank,Theatre Row, and regionally at the National Gallery in Canada, Player's Theatre, The Know Theatre and many more.