In the lounge Things I Left on Long Island Mike Pettry and Sara Cooper
About This Show
Things I Left On Long Island is the story of 28-year-old Marny, who moves back home to live with her mother after finding a lump in her breast. Although it turns out she doesn’t have cancer after all, she has given up her job, her fiancé, and her apartment in New York City, and now she has to figure out what she wants to do with her life. While Marny tries to tell her story, the other members of her family compete for the audience’s attention so they can tell their own stories about family secrets, breast cancer, and what it means to be a woman, and Marny finds herself growing up in the least likely of places: her childhood home.
About the Artists
Mike Pettry is an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award winner and a Jonathan Larson Award winner. Musicals include The Pirate Princess (A.R.T.), The Light Princess (A.R.T., New Vic), Hardcore West Virginia (2012 workshop with Stephen Schwartz), and The Time Travelers Convention. Mike has orchestrated several pieces for Kooman and Dimond, and has written and produced several video game soundtracks. Mike has played on Broadway in Finding Neverland and Godspell. Other NYC performances include Faust with Randy Newman, Found, Rooms, Clinton, and Things To Ruin. Mike holds a degree in musical theatre writing from NYU/Tisch.
Sara Cooper’s recent highlights include a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Theatre Artist Commission (2015); Jonathan Larson Award (2014); The Memory Show, London (2016), Off-Broadway, Transport Group, (2013), Seoul (2012-2013), NEA grant (2013), Barrington Stage (2010), NAMT (2010); Elevator Heart, concert at Producer’s Club (2016), Queens Council on the Arts Grant (2016), concerts at Dixon Place (2015); Loving Leo, Weston Playhouse (2013), Weston Playhouse New Musical Award (2012); Things I Left On Long Island, play: FringeNYC (2014), Time Out New York Critics’ Pick (2014), New York Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award: Playwriting (2014), musical: concerts at Dixon Place (2016).
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Credits
Book & Lyrics by Sara Cooper
Music by Mike Pettry