janet yates vogt & mark friedman
p l a y w r i g h t s c o m p o s e r s l y r i c i s t s
Award winning composers, lyricists, and playwrights Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman have been long-standing creative partners - each of them composing the book, music, and lyrics, for all of their shows.
Their full length adult musicals have played on many Equity stages across the country. Their newest - "Tenderly: the Rosemary Clooney Musical" - has played to critical acclaim - and has been called "the perfect arc of our lives" by Rosie's brother Nick Clooney.
Recognized for their outstanding musicals for young audiences, their works have played on stages and have toured across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Their musical "How I Became a Pirate" has played in over 500 theatres around the world. Their musicals "Alice in Wonderland" and "Snow White and the Prince" have played across the country and were recently translated into Italian and performed across Italy.
Their musicals are published by both Theatrical Rights Worldwide and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization. They are members of The Dramatist Guild, and are represented by the Paradigm Talent Agency in New York City.
In 2005 the two were honored together as National Music Educators of the Year, and have won three distinguished OWEN AWARDS for outstanding music and recording sales achievement. In 2015, the duo was nominated for a prestigious Ohio Arts Council GOVERNOR'S AWARD for their contribitions to the arts.
As of October 2018, their musicals have played worldwide in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, The Phillipines, Italy, Panama, Brazil, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Mark and Janet have produced digital online recordings, music for videos, and have written choral music in a variety of styles and genres which are featured in numerous music catalogs and other publications. Their music is marketed and sung throughout the world and is available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and many other online music sites. You can also find them on Facebook at Janet & Mark Write Musicals.
Janet Yates Vogt has been a writer, composer and lyricist all of her life. She credits her career today to her family’s support, the guidance of many wonderful directors and producers, and to her many outstanding teachers – from her first grade teacher who notated Janet's first songs and taught them to the class to sing – to her inspiring piano teachers to her professors at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), where her studies were centered upon piano performance and music theory.
Janet is known nationally and internationally not only for her musical theatre works, but also for her numerous publications in many different musical genres, including vocal music for children and choral works for adults. Janet's educational keyboard books and methods have been translated into French, Japanese and German.
She has been a pit orchestra member for theatre productions, a vocal coach for the CCM Musical Theatre Institute, and has sung under the direction of the late Leonard Bernstein and other distinguished directors. She has served as a faculty member of the CCM Preparatory Piano Department and the CCM Alumni Board.
A teacher at heart, Janet still coaches piano and voice students, and is a featured speaker and presenter at many national music conventions and events.
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Playwright, composer, and lyricist, Mark Friedman fell in love with musicals at an early age. Watching his favorites - Peter Pan, Singing in the Rain, Music Man (to name just a few) - on TV, prompted him and his brothers to build their own theatre in the basement of their home, complete with lighting grid and sound system, performing for family and friends in the neighborhood. Earning a BS in Education and a Master of the Arts, Mark has enjoyed a versatile career as a successful writer, actor, director, educator, and studio producer. With songs and recordings published worldwide, Mark has scored and scripted events for conventions, has given master classes in drama and playwriting at the collegiate level, and is a sought after speaker at seminars around the country. He was a founder of the first free Shakespeare Festival in Cincinnati, created a unique lunch-theatre for children called Peanut Butter Theatre, helped to launch the highly successful Artreach Touring Theatre, formed a theatre group for inner-city schools called The Good News Company, and toured the country as an actor and musician with the Fountain Square Fools.
Distinguished in 2005 as National Music Educator of the Year, Mark is a proud member of the Dramatist Guild and has contributed to the Dramatist Magazine, and is represented by the Paradigm Talent Agency in New York City.
Grateful for his theatre successes, Mark still considers his best productions to be his kids: Emily, a graduate of NYU's film and television program, living and working in the arts in New York City, and Christopher, also an NYU grad working in a post production audio studio in New York.
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