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About VIRGINITY's Creators
Germaine Shames, a Dramatists Guild Foundation
Fellow and winner of her state's Literary Fellowship
in Fiction, brings a lifelong love of story to musical
theatre. A Kilroys List playwright, she has cele-
brated premieres in New York City, LA, London,
Chicago and Minneapolis.
A proud 2024 Puffin Foundation grantee, Shames collaborates with world-class composers in musical theatre, opera, choral and popular music. Her original musicals, If the Spirit Moves and The Manifesto, premiered at Theatre Elision in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Her opera, The Bird Lady, premiered at the National Opera Center in 2021, and In Venice at I Fabbristi in 2024.
Shames writes from a global perspective with the conscious aim of fostering interethnic, intergenerational and cross-gender under-standing. It's all about love
Daniel Lincoln, a graduate of UCLA (BA, Music: Vocal Performance and Music Composition) and NYU (MFA, Musical Theatre Writing), composes for both theater and film. In 2018, the movie musical short Plus One, featuring Daniel's music and lyrics, won "Best Musical" at multiple film festivals around America, including the Manhattan Film Festival. Original musicals include Wrong Could Be Right (Facade Productions, London UK), Calixte (Festival South, MS), and Queen Bea: A Soapsical! (3 Rules Productions, NY) which originally starred the cast of ABC’s daytime drama One Life to Live.
Daniel has taught at NYU Tisch (Playwrights Horizons Studio and The New Studio on Broadway), New York Film Academy’s Musical Theatre Conservatory, and worked for Broadway casting agencies such as Telsey + Company.
Website: http://www.danielmlincoln.com
Krista Pojman graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City for music composition and music therapy. She has composed the music for four productions, receiving performances at the Coterie, The Living Room Theater, KC Lyric Opera, and Resonation – Miami, and wrote the official song for the Navy’s newest ship, the USS Kansas City.
Krista. a former music therapy intern at Bridgeway Academy school for autism, teaches at Fugees Family. She has music directed numerous children’s productions including Beauty and the Beast Jr., Alice in Wonderland Jr. and The Little Mermaid Jr.
An avid student of American Sign Language, Krista performs for a deaf following on her YouTube channel, Singing and signing.
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KristaPojman
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"Mine is a silent world, a vast and wondrous place of songs I cannot hear, though each one leaves its trace."
from "Jenny's Song"