Favorite credits include Sweet Charity (Greater Boston Stage Company), A Man of No Importance (B-side productions), Damn Yankees (Goodspeed Opera House), Catch Me If You Can (First National Tour), Legally Blonde (North Shore Music Theater), Addams Family (Stoneham Theater), Hairspray (Arizona Broadway Theater), and My Post Traumatic Cruise Ship Cabaret, a one-woman musical she co-wrote with playwright Dana Yeaton, who is also her father. Vanessa has been touring, performing and writing ever since. She trained at Circle in the Square’s theatre conservatory and graduated in 2006. Working on this show with Vanessa has been the collaboration of a lifetime, resulting in the most hilarity and the greatest time discussing the most flattering costumes.Ī native Vermonter, Vanessa Dunleavy (writer, actor) moved to New York in 2005 to pursue musical theatre. In addition to her work as a composer, Miranda runs a busy private vocal studio in Montclair and spends time parenting her two beloved sons. Miranda’s original children’s musicals have been staged at schools throughout the Bay Area and Manhattan. Her show The Precipice- a 5 year long musical collaboration with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and pianist Jeff Chimenti- was performed at San Francisco’s Z Space theatre.

Miranda has toured internationally as a singer and has been the recipient of multiple grants for her original musical works. Vermont native Miranda Ferriss Jones (composer, lyricist, actor) studied theatre at Yale University and is currently a thrilled participant in the esteemed BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Now they’re returning to their hometown to work with Doug Anderson, artistic director of Town Hall Theater, on a new musical that tells their story. And through it all their friendship endured. Life took them through New York stages, success and disappointment, the loss of old dreams and the creation of new ones. Growing up in small-town Vermont, Miranda and Vanessa starred in high school musicals and dreamed of making it to Broadway. We proudly present the results of our process in November 2021. After the input we received from the first workshop in November 2019, the creative team spent the last two years revising and polishing this extraordinary new musical.

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