Creative Team

Fred Rohan Vargas

Librettist, Lyricist & Composer

Fred Rohan Vargas is the Executive Producer of Mixing It Up Productions, LLC. The company develops, produces, and licenses intellectual properties in theatre, music, and film/digital media. He is a published playwright who has written several scripts that have been produced throughout the United States and abroad. He holds an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University. Before his years at Tisch School of the Arts, Fred Rohan-Vargas began his theatre career by starting a dance theatre company with fifty performers playing in various venues such as Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Pittsburgh's Performing Arts Center, and Cami Hall with jazz greats, Dizzy Gillespie, and Horace Silver.

Rohan Vargas's love for writing songs has given him "Honorable Mention Awards" from The Billboard World Songwriters' Contest, John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Great American Song Contest, Unisong International Songwriting Contest, and the Suggested Artist Songwriting Award. In addition, he has three songs on a compilation of CDs by the Nashville Songwriters Association International ("The Best of Holidays"), the Pick with Austin Foundation ("My Gift of Music"), and Paramount Song.com ("My Gift for Christmas"). Currently, some of his music is playing throughout Southeast Asia.

Rohan Vargas is a member of BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Musical Writers Academy, Theater Resource Unlimited (TRU), Dramatists Guild, Commercial Theatre Institute (CTI), and Off-Broadway Alliance. He currently serves on the advisory board of Ripple Effect Artists, Inc.

Hans Friedrichs

Director

A New York-based director, whose credits include Cole Porter’s FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN Off-Broadway for The York Theatre Company. NYC productions of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE (New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical) A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE and PARADE. Regional credits include; MURDER FOR TWO HOLIDAY EDITION (Cape May Stage) HANK WILLIAMS; LOST HIGHWAY with George Wendt (The REV), HANDS ON A HARDBODY with Rex Smith, and SUNSET BOULEVARD with Kim Zimmer.

He has won Michigan’s Wilde Award for his productions of Disney’s THE LITTLE MERMAID, SWEENEY TODD, and STEEL MAGNOLIAS at The Barn Theatre. He graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University in acting and directing and has taught at Manhattan Marymount College, AMDA, and the NSKI School in Oslo. Member SDC. HansFriedrichs.com

Seth Weinstein

Music Director

Seth Weinstein wrote the music for the Off-Broadway musical How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes (New World Stages) and The Magic Fishbone (developed at the Broadway Mentors Program). He also wrote and recorded "The Chagall Suite" (eight piano movements inspired by Marc Chagall's artworks) and "Conversations" (a musical meeting between Chagall and Elvis Presley) and has performed them around the USA, Germany, and France.

Seth has toured internationally with Fosse and Ivan Jacobs's The Phantom of the Opera and in the USA with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. He has been the musical director of Black House (Zagreb, Croatia), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Arvada Center), Smokey Joe's Cafe (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), and Ben, Virginia & Me (Acorn Theatre, NYC), among other shows. Seth is the pianist for the MAC and Bistro Award-winning Screen Gems: Songs of Old Hollywood (featuring Sarah Rice) and Operation Opera (featuring Adelmohttps://www.showtown.nyc/ Guidarelli), and he performs regularly with soprano Jodi Keogan and baritone Mark Watson.