Lost in Hollywoodland

Production and Developmental History

"Lost in Hollywoodland" had its world premiere at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo New York where it closed the 2006/2007 season.

Winner of the 2006/2007 California Musical Theater Award sponsored by the Beverly Hills Theater Guild and the 2005 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, "Lost in Hollywoodland" was also a finalist for the 2006 Stanley Dramatist Award and the 2006 Global Search for New Musicals in Cardiff, Wales where it was selected out of 241 applicants from 28 countries.

On October 11, 2005 a full staged reading of Hollywoodland was performed on an actual Hollywood sound stage in Occidental Studios.

The musical is also a winner of Theatre Building Chicago's national competition, STAGES where it was read as part of their 2005 Festival of New Musicals.

In the spring of 2005, "Lost in Hollywoodland" was selected to participle in the York Theatre Company's Developmental Reading Series where it was performed featuring the Tony Award Nominee John Tartaglia of "Avenue Q" as Dexter Webster.

"Lost in Hollywoodland" has been work-shopped at the Academy for New Musical Theatre in Los Angeles and a staged reading at the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood, CA was directed by Dan Oliverio in May 2004 where it received a standing ovation.