R.C. Staab
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New York, NY
R.C. Staab is a New York-based playwright, librettist and lyricist whose musicals and plays.
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Biography

For more than a decade, R.C. Staab has concentrated his writing in the theater as a playwright, bookwriter, librettist and lyricist. ONE WAY TICKET: A Musical Murder Mystery, the new Sturman and Staab show, will have its premier in November 2013 in England. He just finished a staged reading of SIGNAL MALFUNCTION, a contemporary farce he co-wrote with Kelsey Mathes. With Daniel Sturman, Staab wrote the musical, ZOMBIE WEDDING which sold out at the Gorleston Pavilion in October 2012. The show was one of the Top Picks of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival with glowing reviews and more than a dozen call-outs from the NY Daily News, Village Voice, Theatremania.com, Playbill.com, MSN.com and WCBS Radio. In 2009, two of his musicals received fully-staged, Equity-approved workshop productions in collaboration with leading musical theater companies in the Bay Area. Directed by Bay Area veteran musical theater director Dianna Shuster, SHADOWS OF POMPEII was produced in collaboration with 42n

Plays

How the Westons Won
by Aaron Latina and R.C. Staab

The musical tells the story of two teenagers who accidentally bring to life a Wild West toy diorama with Buffalo Bill, Custer, Geronimo, Calamity Jane and a native American woman and embark on an extraordinary adventure to mend their broken family. You can sample music at www.howthewestonswon.com/music.

Cast:
A cast of 15 includes Brian Charles Rooney (Broadway: Three Penny Opera), Heather Jane Rolff (Broadway: Shrek) and an ensemble that plays guitar, fiddle, violin, cello, mandolin, French horn, cajon and a glockenspiel by 11-year-old Timothy Yang (Broadway: The King and I).