About the Writers

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LEPers, the Musical"><U><B><IMG SRC="07cb55d0.jpg" border=0 width="181" height="349" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="LEPers, the Musical"><U><B><IMG SRC="07e611a0.png" border=0 width="97" height="26" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Story"><U>The Story</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sample Songs"><U>Sample Songs</U></A>   |   <B>About the Writers</B>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Information"><U>Contact Information</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Project History"><U>Project History</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <I>About the Writers</I></div> <div> LEPers is a new dramatic musical, based on the unpublished play by Aaron Alon, with book by <A HREF="#terra_ziporyn" TITLE="About the Writers"><U>Terra Ziporyn</U></A>, music by <A HREF="#aaron_alon" TITLE="About the Writers"><U>Aaron Alon</U></A>, and lyrics by <A HREF="#julie_pedersen" TITLE="About the Writers"><U>Julie Pedersen</U></A>.  </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="terra_ziporyn"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>TERRA ZIPORYN</B></div> <div> <I>Bookwriter</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.terraziporyn.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.terraziporyn.com"><U>Terra Ziporyn</U></A> is a playwright, fiction writer, and the award-winning author of numerous health and science books including <A HREF="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/CARNEW.html" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/CARNE"><U>The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health</U></A> and <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764551094/qid=1122915120/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1/102-6705141-2018528?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/det"><U>Alternative Medicine for Dummies</U></A>. Currently a member of the Theatre Building of Chicago’s Writers Workshop, she graduated from Yale University, where she studied playwriting with Ted Tally, and then completed a Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of Chicago. Terra has participated in both the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Old Chatham Writers Conference and has won numerous awards and fellowships for both fiction and science writing, including short story awards from Writer’s Digest Magazine and the Chicago Literary Review, a AAAS Mass Media Science Writing Fellowship, and an Artist Development Grant from the Vermont Council on the Arts.  Her plays include Wally’s Playhouse, authored with Jim Hughes and Will Graveman (produced and presented at Theatre Building Chicago) and The Teacup (produced at Yale University).  </div> <div>  <A NAME="aaron_alon"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>AARON ALON</B></div> <div> <I>C</I><I>omposer</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.aaronalon.com" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.aaronalon.com"><U>Aaron Alon</U></A> is an award-winning, widely-performed young classical composer.  He has also been involved in musical theatre since the age of 9, as a pianist, actor, singer, and composer.  He holds a BA in music from the University of Chicago and an MM in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in composition at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music.  Past composition teachers include Shih-Hui Chen, Karim Al-Zand, Marta Ptasznska, Margaret Brouwer, Easley Blackwood, Jean Milew, and Orianna Webb.  He has also studied jazz arranging with Paul Ferguson and composition for musical theatre with The Writers’ Workshop (formerly known as New Tuners).  </div> <div>  <A NAME="julie_pedersen"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>JULIE PEDERSEN</B></div> <div> <I>Lyricist</I></div> <bR> <div> Julie Pedersen obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Purdue University in 1991. She has taught philosophy at Purdue and at Loyola University of Chicago.  She founded and served as President of the American Philosophical Association's Central Division Sartre Circle.  Julie has over 50 published credits, including feature stories for the Chicago Tribune, magazine articles, essays and book reviews.  As a member of the New Tuners workshop in Chicago, she was the lyricist for the 10-minute tuner, <I>Too Many Cooks</I> (book by Marie Yuen, music by Jill Marshall Work); she also wrote the book and lyrics for the One-Act musical <I>Twice Upon a Time</I> (music by Ken Pedersen) and the book for <I>Brave New Kitchen</I>, all of which were produced by Theatre Building Chicago.  In addition to her work for musical theatre, Julie has co-written (with Jeanne Jordan) five screenplays which have won or placed in the top 5% of several national and internation screenplay competitions.  She is also the co-author (with Jeanne Jordan) of <A HREF="http://www.panicdiaries.com/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.panicdiaries.com/"><U><I>The Panic Diaries</I></U></A><I>:  The Frightful, Sometimes Hilarious Truth About Panic Attacks</I>, published by Ulysses Press in America and Hamlyn/Octopus Publishing Group in the United Kingdom (July, 2004). </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>