Mikey Rosenbaum is a traveler/actor/singer/playwright/composer crafting new musical theater experiences for audiences of all ages. Mikey received his MFA from the Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program at TISCH/NYU (2020 Frederick Loewe Scholarship for Musical Composition). Mikey has co-created over a dozen TYA scores and has had musicals produced and performed at venues all over NYC: Ars Nova, 54 Below, Rockwood Music Hall & Lincoln Center. Recently, Mikey produced/created his first concept album: GET LOST! w/ Mikey Rose & The Flower People. Currently: Head of AR @fvrdrmstudios (Bushwick); Summer Director of the Performing Arts at The American School in Switzerland.

At the Catwalk Residency, Mikey will be developing a new piece of folk-rock concert theater inspired by Washington Irving and his Hudson Valley-set short stories (including Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle).

https://www.themikeyrose.com/

Affiliation: NYU/TISCH

Han Hitchen is a composer who writes for a wide range of genres, spanning across various acoustic and electroacoustic settings. His more recent music is informed by identity, normalizing the controversial, and implementing unstandard instrumentations. For the Catwalk Residency, Han is composing a piece for the surrounding natural landscape of the Catwalk grounds. Utilizing a text-based score (similar to Hitchen's work finding, welcoming, cherishing, and Pauline Oliveros's Sonic Meditations) and found objects in nature (rocks & other natural debris), this piece will be fully accessible to performers regardless of their musical training (if any). Performances of this piece are meant to be done outdoors, allowing a strengthening of the connection between us as living creatures and our place on this earth.

https://hanhitchen.com/

Affiliation: Penn State

Emily Everhard is a writer, director, and actress from Colorado. She tells stories about underdogs and outsiders often inspired by true events. Emily's the sole 2024 Sundance x Sloan Episodic Fellow for her teleplay TEKTITE and recently completed her MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University. At CATWALK, Emily will revise her screenplay GRIEF RETREAT about a mother & daughter who attend a summer camp for grieving adults run by a famous Medium. The film is set in the Hudson Valley.

https://www.emilyeverhard.com/

Affiliation: Columbia

Emily Elyse Everett is a writer and actor based in Brooklyn. She was awarded Synecdoche Works' 2022 Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language and the $3000 winning prize for her play "Strange and Splendid." She was a Semifinalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival and a Winner of the Players Club of Swarthmore New Play Festival for her play "Serenity,” selected for the 2023 Valdez Theater Conference for her play "sorry sorry okay sorry," and a finalist for the Emerson Stages NewFest New Play Workshop and the Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writer's Residency for her play "New England Summer Storms." Originally from Portland, Oregon, Emily has a BA in Playwriting from Brown University and MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. During her Catwalk residency, Emily will be developing her new play, "The Quakers", a multi-timeline piece following the history of Quakers in America.

https://www.emilyelyseeverett.com/

Affiliation: Columbia

Durra Leung (Chinese: 柯杜華) is a China-born, NYC-based multilingual musical theatre and opera writer, writing music, lyrics, and book. Durra’s original musical works have been seen at NYC venues including 54 Below, Joe’s Pub, Symphony Space, and many others. He has provided new Cantonese translation and lyrics for a revised version of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (2002 Tony Award for Best Musical), most recently produced by Japan’s Toho Company in Summer 2024. Durra also composes scores for dance pieces and films including “Your Smile” (dir. Haochen Yang) which was in the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. Having been a resident of Catwalk thrice between 2021 and 2023, this time he will be working on "Durra Leung's Lullabies for Motherf*ckers Vol.2," an 80-minute, one- person musical centering on a nonbinary queer Chinese-American painter investigating the mysterious disappearance of their immigrant father in an all-white rural town.

https://www.durraleung.com/

Affiliation: NYU/Tisch