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Maryrose Wood
THE TUTOR had a critically-acclaimed run in New York at 59E59 Theatres as part of Prospect Theatre's 2005-06 season of new musicals. Excerpts have been included in Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, and in concert at Merkin Hall. For her work on THE TUTOR, Maryrose was the first winner of the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award. She also wrote book and lyrics for THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS (music by Andrew Gerle), a Rodgers Award semi-finalist that was recently presented as part of the "Stripped" New Musicals project at Oklahoma City University. Previously it had a student workshop production at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS is set in turn-of-the-century New York, and is based on the short stories of O. Henry. Maryrose and Andrew completed their first movie musical in 2004. Titled LOVE, MOM and directed by Ted Sperling, the short film stars Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins as the mother of a US serviceman overseas. LOVE, MOM was premiered at Anthology Film Archive and has been screened at numerous film festivals in the U.S., including the Palm Beach International, Trenton, California Independent, and the Black Maria Film Festival, where it won the Director's Choice Award. It was also screened at the inaugural Golden Lion Film Festival in Swaziland. Maryrose's first novel for teens was published in January 2006 by Random House. Titled SEX KITTENS AND HORN DAWGS FALL IN LOVE, it was hailed by critics as an "uproariously funny debut." Her next book, WHY I LET MY HAIR GROW OUT, will be released in March '07 by Berkley Books, to be followed by MY LIFE: THE MUSICAL, also published by Random House. Maryrose's plays include THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, THE LOVE PONZI, and FRAN'S LIPOSUCTION, and have been read at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Women's Project, The Playwright's Center of San Francisco and other venues. Her short musicals and songs have been presented at Joe's Pub, the National Arts Club, Broadway Theatre Institute, Dixon Place, and various cabarets in New York, as well as in university and high school productions. She lives in New York with her two children. She is a graduate of NYU's Gallatin School, and is a member of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop and the Dramatists Guild. News & ReviewsNo current items | 
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Maryrose Wood wrote book and lyrics for THE TUTOR, an original musical that's the only three-time winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' prestigious Richard Rodgers Award. THE TUTOR (with music by Andrew Gerle) has been developed at the O'Neill Music Theatre Conference, The York Theatre and The Public Theatre in New York, and The Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington. In addition to the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Rodgers Awards, THE TUTOR won the "Best of Fest" award at the Village Theatre's Village Originals Festival of New Musicals, and received a NAMT Producer-Writer Initiative Grant.