Greta Gertler Gold
At The Orchard Project
- 2026Performance Lab
Available Hooks
AVAILABLE HOOKS Lead artists: Susan Bernfield’s (lyricist/librettist/performer) plays and solo performance works have been produced, presented, developed or commissioned by EST/Sloan and First Light Festival, People's Light & Theatre, New Harmony Project, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, MACH 33: The Caltech | Pasadena Playhouse Festival of New Science-Driven Plays, Huntington Theatre Company, WAM Theatre, New Georges, The Lark, Jewish Plays Project, undergroundzero festival, Chrysalis Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Ice Factory Festival, FringeNYC, Magic Theatre, in living rooms around New York City, and through The Pool, a pop-up theater company (co-founder/original cohort member). She and her plays have been finalists for the Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Program, NNPN’s National Showcase of New Plays, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, among others; and published (in whole or in part) by Playscripts/Concord, Smith & Kraus and Indie Theatre Now. Susan is also the founder and Artistic Director/Producer of New Georges, a strategically small theater company in New York City. In this capacity, she has championed three generations of ambitious women+ theater artists, shepherded hundreds of exuberantly theatrical new plays, and is the recipient of Obie and Lilly awards. www.susanbernfield.com @susanbernfield https://www.facebook.com/susan.bernfield Greta Gertler Gold (co-composer) is a composer, lyricist, performer, and producer. She composed and co-orchestrated the Off-Broadway world premiere of Picnic at Hanging Rock: The Musical, where she also served as lead producer. She co-created the concert production of Triplight at Joe’s Pub, directed by Mia Rovegno (The Civilians), and is developing new musicals with Susan Bernfield and Stew (Passing Strange). A Yaddo Fellow, Café Royal Foundation Music Grant recipient, Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist, and New York City Women’s Fund Finalist, Greta’s works include the psychedelic rock musical The Red Tree and children’s musical All Aboard. She has participated in Ars Nova’s “Uncharted” program and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. As a performer with her bands The Universal Thump and The Extroverts, she made her Lincoln Center debut in 2023. Her songs have aired on NPR, and she is a multi-platinum songwriter whose credits include work with The Whitlams (Warner Music). Greta has also composed for Dr. Seuss Tonies toys and is a member of ASCAP, Maestra, and The Dramatists Guild. www.GretaGertlerGold.com @gretagertlergold https://www.facebook.com/greta.gertler Rob Jost (co-composer) is a bassist multi-instrumentalist living in Brooklyn. He has played for over 20 Broadway shows, including Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen and Death Becomes her. He was co-orchestrator/music coordinator for the December 2025 world premiere of Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Off Broadway at Greenwich House Theater. He has played multiple times in the Saturday Night Live house band and been part of Joe Fiedler’s Sesame Street house band for 16 seasons, including the specials Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas, The Magical Wand Chase, and When You Wish Upon a Pickle, and on camera for the Sesame Street Muppets’ appearance on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts in 2019. He has recorded with Bjork, The Mountain Goats, Imogen Heap, and many other wonderful bands and artists. https://www.facebook.com/rob.jost.50 Portia Krieger (director) directs new plays and musicals. Most recently, she directed the world premiere of Picnic at Hanging Rock, a musical by Hilary Bell and Greta Gertler Gold based on the novel by Joan Lindsay. Portia was the Associate Director for Broadway's Seminar, Almost Famous, and the Tony-winning Fun Home. Her artistic stomping grounds include Clubbed Thumb, Williamstown, the O’Neill, Ars Nova, and New Georges, where Portia co-founded performance gym The Jam. www.portia-krieger.com @portiarose22 Description of project: After replacing the lead singer of a hit-rich ‘90s act, Beth’s now spent the full-on middle of life—singleton to empty nest—inhabiting that other woman’s songs, her youthful emotions, so what if tonight she breaks out into the present? A musical for solo performer and rock band.
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