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About The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown
18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys in her hand. Caught between yearning for something different and feeling stuck in what her life has become, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well- intentioned helicopter parents and her good-natured if unambitious boyfriend, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous, daring, brave. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly’s killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning how to take risks. Now, paralyzed by fear and inertia, Sam has to make a decision. Will she stay where she is, waiting for her parents to wake up and drive her to college, or will she drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
About Kait Kerrigan & Brian Lowdermilk
Kait Kerrigan (words) and Brian Lowdermilk (music) made their off Broadway debut in 2006 with their adaptation of Henry and Mudge. In 2011, they released their first album Our First Mistake, which charted at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. Their latest album, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live (2013), documents a concert tour that resulted from their breakout $35K kickstarter campaign. Other musicals include The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Tales from the Bad Years, The Woman Upstairs, Wrong Number, The Freshman Experiment, Republic, Unbound, and Flash of Time. Their songs have been recorded and performed internationally and their musicals have been produced and developed throughout the United States. Together, they received the 2006 Larson Award and 2004-2005 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and they have held multiple residencies including the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. Kerrigan received the 2009 Kleban Award for libretto-writing, and as a playwright, she has written numerous works including Disaster Relief, and was a 2013 member of Interstate 73. She teaches libretto writing at Primary Stages. Lowdermilk received the Alan Menken Award and the 2005 Richard Rodgers Award for Red with librettist Marcus Stevens. Both are alumni of the BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, co-founders of the digital sheet music company NewMusicalTheatre.com, and proud members of the Dramatist Guild and ASCAP.