Laura Stratford (librettist) is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Underscore Theatre Company. Numbers Nerds marks her fifth world-premiere musical collaboration with Alex Higgin-Houser and David Kornfeld. With Higgin-Houser and Kornfeld, she toured Grind: The (coffee shop, comic book) Musical to four cities and rave reviews in the Midwest Fringe Tour in 2010.
The writing team’s first production including Brendan Siegfried, Liberal Arts: The Musical! premiered in Chicago April 2012, was lauded for “great dialogue and lyrics� (Chicago Theater Beat), and “a lot of talent on display in the writing� (Windy City Times).
In August 2012, the EX-Pats Theatre Company premiered their short musical, Spa Fire: Children of the One Percent, which performed again this spring in Underscore’s production of STUCK: Four Short Original Musicals. Most recently, they produced pr0ne: a Hardcore Amateur Musical, now in post-premiere workshops in Chicago.
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