AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!  Produced by Alex Garrett

THIS EPISODE: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with ALBERT M. TAPPER (the AMT of AMT THEATER) about life & baseball, theater, music, his love of New York City, his new documentary feature film “THIS ORDINARY THING” and his upcoming new musical, THE PAPARAZZI which opens at AMT Theater in March 2026.

About Albert M. Tapper
While attending Boston University, Al Tapper wrote his first musical at the age of 20. Since then, he has written special material for regional productions, composed seven musicals, a ballet, a rhapsody, and a capriccio.  He has written two straight plays and four books, and produced three documentary films.Al Tapper composed the ballet “The Seduction of Bathsheba”, whose premiere performance at Mechanics Hall was presented by the Central Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra 1988.  Al’s seven musicals have also garnered success throughout the years opening in various cities on the eastern seaboard.  Beginning in 1992, “David” opened as a workshop production at 890 Broadway in New York City and in Washington, D.C. in 1994 at the Washington Jewish Theater.  His off-Broadway musical, “iMperfect Chemistry”, for which he composed the music and created the story, opened at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City in April of 2000.  The musical revue “From Where I Stand” opened at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in March of 2004.  “Sessions” a new musical opened at the Peter Sharp Theater (Playwrights Horizons) and the Algonquin Theater and ran for over 400 performances.  It was translated into Spanish and played in Mexico where it won the best musical of the year in 2011.  He wrote the musical “An Evening at the Carlyle” which ran at The Algonquin Theater and was reviewed as ‘best show of the Summer’… 2010 by UPI.  “National Pastime,” which played at the Keegan Theater in Washington DC in 2011 and was chosen to be considered for a Helen Hayes Award.  “All Aboard” which played at the 14th Street Theater. It played again in 2023 with a new score at the AMT Theater in Manhattan. He, along with Tony Sportiello wrote a new musical in 2021 “The Paparazzi” about how tabloid newspapers the internet and TV can cause havoc amongst celebrities in all aspects of society. It played in Guadalajara. Mexico and won for best show of 2022.Al has written four books on humor that were published by Andrews McMeel and Company and MJF Publishing. The books entitled, “A Guy Goes Into a Bar”; “A Minister, a Priest And a Rabbi”; “A Guy Goes Into a Doctor’s Office, and a “A Guy Goes Into a Gym.”In 2013, he wrote a novella called, “Conversations with Max” and in 2021 a short story entitled “Sittin’ On The Stoop” in 2021. In 2023 at the AMT Theater, he wrote “An Unbalanced Mind” a musical show featuring 21 songs written over the many years of his career, and his straight play “Bettingers Luggage” which takes a nostalgic look back, warts and all, at a family business in the old neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side’s as the generations struggle, love and grow apart.  He is currently working on a new musical “UPSIDE/down” written with Tony Sportiello scheduled to open in 2024.Tapper also produced the PBS television special “My Sinatra: The Songs and the Stories” a musical tribute starring Cary Hoffman in 2002.

Al Tapper produced the documentary film entitled “Broadway: The Golden Age, By The Legends Who Were There” written and directed by Rick McKay.  The film shares the stories of such legendary Broadway stars as Carol Burnett, Angela Lansbury, Shirley MacLaine, Jeremy Irons, Gena Rowlands, Jerry Orbach, Martin Landau, Bea Arthur, Stephen Sondheim, and Eli Wallach and dozens of others, while illustrating their tales with amazing, rare, archival performance footage and their own home movies and photos. “Broadway” has won standing ovations and thirteen Best Film, Documentary and Audience Awards at sold-out screenings at festivals all over the country this past year.  He produced Broadway Musicals…A Jewish Legacy written and directed by Michael Kantor about contributions of Jewish composers and lyricists from the beginning of Broadway and still today.  The movie presents the views of Hal Prince, Mary Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick, Maury Yeston, The George and Ira Gershwin estate, Jamie Bernstein, John Kander,and numerous other interviews. He won a Peabody Award for this production. His latest film opened on July 23, 2018 on PBS American Masters.  Ted Williams…The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived.  The movie was previewed on July 17, 2018 at the Baseball All-Star Game in Washington DC. His movie “A Righteous Gentile” a documentary about Gentiles who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. It will  will be completed in mid-2024.

Al Tapper was born in Worcester, MA and currently resides in Boca Raton, FL and New York City. 
He is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America and a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers). 

Further information can be found at his website:   https://www.amtentertainment.com/


AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!  Produced by Alex Garrett

THIS EPISODE: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with Academy Award winner BOBBY MORESCO about growing up in Hell’s Kitchen - staying and leaving, his love of NYC, becoming an actor, writer director, The Actors Gym, winning an Academy Award, and being part of the AMT Theater family.  And what he hopes his legacy will be. 

ABOUT BOBBY MORESCO: Academy Award winning writer, director and producer Bobby Moresco started out as an actor in New York City, where he was raised in the Hell's Kitchen district of Manhattan, three blocks and a world away from Broadway.

After studying acting with the widely respected Wynn Handman and Peggy Fuery, founders of The American Place Theatre and Loft Theatre, respectively, Moresco opened The Actor's Gym in New York and then moved the company to Los Angeles in 1978. Still running today, with locations in LA and NY, the "Gym" specializes in developing new work for stage, film and television. The work created there has gone on to Broadway and garnered many awards including Emmys, Oscars and Golden Globes.

Throughout the '90s, Moresco focused much of his time on creating, writing and producing for television. Notable projects included Millenium, which earned him a Genesis Award, and EZ Streets, in 1996, which won the "Viewers for Quality Television Award" for best program of the year, as well as being named one of the best television shows of all time as recently as 2008. In 1998, he co-created and executive produced the critically acclaimed series Falcone, and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 2007, Moresco returned to television with The Black Donnelly's, co-creating and executive producing the series for NBC starring Jonathan Tucker and Olivia Wilde.

Moresco's latest television work includes The Hundred Code, a series he's created for Kanal 5 in Sweden that began production in April of 2014. Bobby directed the first three episodes of the season. He also recently wrote Whitey, a four hour movie event about the rise and fall of Boston's infamous Whitey Bulger, for Aslyum Entertainment and Spike TV. Whitey is Spike Network's first scripted mini-series. In 2013, Bobby also sold Petrosino, a ten hour mini-series about the true story of New York City's first Italian police officer and his heroic battle to stop the American Mafia in its infancy, to FOX.

Moresco's stage work includes writing and directing over 30 plays Off and Off-Off Broadway and fulfilling a childhood dream, he directed Colin Quinn in "An Irish Wake" at the Helen Hayes on Broadway.

On the big screen, Moresco co-wrote and produced the breakout film of 2004, CRASH. The drama directed by Paul Haggis and starring an ensemble cast including Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Ryan Phillipe, Thandie Newton and Ludacris, was released by Lions Gate Films on May 6, 2004. In 2005, at the 78th Academy Awards®, Moresco and Haggis were awarded an Oscar for co-writing the film. In addition to winning in the Original Screenplay category, CRASH won additional Oscars for Best Picture and Achievement in Editing. Moresco also received the WGA, Bafta and Critic's Choice awards for his work on the screenplay.

Moresco's other features include, MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2005 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture), which he co-produced and developed with Paul Haggis; and 10TH & WOLF, his directorial debut starring James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi. He also wrote Intimidation, which he will be producing with Mark Harris. It is set to be directed by Todd Field for Nikkatsu Studios, slated for the first quarter of 2015.

CRASH, the film, served as the inspiration for the television series, also entitled Crash on the Starz Network. Moresco executive produced the first season, in addition to directing two episodes. The series starred Dennis Hopper, Eric Roberts, Ross McCall, and Jocko Sims, among others.

Staying true to his independent spirit, Bobby recently wrote, and is attached to direct, "The Harbor" a neo-noir piece set in New Orleans.

Hell's Kitchen with Bobby Moresco | Block by Block with Colin Quinn https://youtu.be/jt7HO-gqbPI?si=eRsKSXAe9KcJa9mR  



AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!  Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with Charles E. Gerber about life in New York City, art, Shakespeare, and his short film A KINGS CURTAIN, winning awards and being part of the AMT International Film Festival. 

ABOUT CHARLES E. GERBER:  A Founding Member of The Workshop Theater and Creator & Director of Will's Playshop. Winner Best Actor for A KINGS CURTAIN at the BURBANK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.  https://www.facebook.com/charles.e.gerber/
ABOUT A KINGS CURTAIN:A career woman's love and devotion to her Shakespearean actor father are tested when his descent into Alzheimer's jeopardizes her chance for a coveted promotion. 

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314091/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26654529/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_1 




AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!  Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with Academy Award Nominated SAM CUTLER-KREUTZ about life, art, his love of New York City, filmmaking and attending the Academy Awards with his brother David, and his short film Trapped (https://www.samck.com/trapped) which is winning awards and is featured in the AMT International Film Festival. 

ABOUT SAM CUTLER-KREUTZ:  is an Oscar Nominated commercial, music video and narrative director. He won the SXSW Special Jury Award. His work was shortlisted for the Cannes - Young Directors Award 2023 & 1.4 awards 2023, won Silver at Berlin Commercial & Music Video & has had multiple Nowness Premieres and Vimeo Staff picks. His three narrative shorts have all premiered at major film festivals, SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand, Seattle, Vancouver, Rhode Island & Brooklyn Film Festivals, Flickerfest, among many others. 

https://www.samck.com/  
Trapped short film - 𝘚𝘟𝘚𝘞 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳  
A Lien short film - 97𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘺 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦  



AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!


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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!  Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with JAVIER MOLINA about life, art, his love of New York City, his role at The Actors Studio, and his film Trapped (https://www.samck.com/trapped) winning awards and being part of the AMT International Film Festival. 

ABOUT JAVIER MOLINA: He is the first Latino Co-Artistic Director of The Actors Studio in NYC. Javier earned an MFA in directing from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. He directed the short film WONDER, winning 21 awards, including the Audience Award at Urban World and the Best Short Film Award at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, qualifying WONDER for Academy Award consideration and securing distribution by HBO. Javier Molina received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts!  Javier was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. 

https://theactorsstudio.org/who-we-are/leadership/
https://www.instagram.com/iamjaviermolina 


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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!  Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with MARTIN GRUBER about life, art, his Vienna, Austria based theater company Aktions Theater Ensemble coming to NYC to perform ALL ABOUT ME.

Martin Gruber, Director  https://aktionstheater.at/ensemble\  
Founded in 1989, the aktionstheater ensemble has become one of Austria's most important contemporary theaters, traveling tirelessly between Vienna and Vorarlberg. The productions of recent years could be called, in reference to Schiller, dramatic poems. For a great deal is condensed here: language, body and music, choreographies, experiences, personal research, and historical events. People who are also actors take to the stage, singing, dancing, and narrating, creating a web of all theatrical disciplines.


AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!


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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with JOEY DEMITA about life, art, his love of New York City, his upcoming show at AMT Theater – Ichabod: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and all about his theater company Emergent TheatreWorks which he co-founded with his friend Ryan MacPherson. 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/regional/IchabodThe-Legend-of-Sleepy-Hollow-4338526 

About Joey DeMita, Founder & Artistic Director of Emergent TheatreWorks 
Joey can’t remember a time when theatre wasn’t a part of his life. At the age of 18, Joey took the bold step of starting his first theatre company, The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company (Friends United Developing Genuine Entertainment) with two high school friends.  The company quickly grew, attracting actors, designers and technicians from all over the Boston area. Not long after, FUDGE grew to gain recognition alongside some of Boston’s professional companies. Joey earned several IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) award nominations, including Best Production: Glory Days, Parade, Spring Awakening;  Best Direction: Glory Days, Assassins, Parade, Spring Awakening; Best Choreography: Carousel. Joey also produced and directed several premieres with FUDGE, including  I Sing! (Boston Premiere), bare: A Pop Opera (New England Premiere), Nevermore (New England Premiere), Half-Married (World Premiere), Drawin’ on the Walls (World Premiere) and Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Musical (World Premiere). Joey made the decision to close the door on The FUDGE Theatre Company in order to move to NYC.  After taking a few years away from theater, Joey has excitedly teamed up with Ryan to bring Emergent TheatreWorks to New York City.

https://www.emergenttheatrenyc.org/about-us 
Emergent TheatreWorks is one of New York City's newest 501(c)(3) non-profit theater companies. We seek to engage and challenge our audience by reimagining and reinventing well-known theatrical works, as well as bringing life to new and underproduced works.



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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with CHRISTINE CIRKER about life, New York City, and Lost and Found play. 

Christine Cirker (Director) (she/her) is an Off-Broadway director and producer, focusing primarily on new work. She has been a part of the development of LOST AND FOUND since AMT’s reading in 2023. Her NYC directing credits include works presented by United Solo, Urban Stages, Emerging Artists Theatre, AMT Theater, Lucille Lortel, Pulse Ensemble, Neighborhood Playhouse and others. A member of The Barrow Group (TBG) artistic community for 20+ years, notable TBG productions include Co-Director of Lost…Found by K. Lorrel Manning (in NYC and Edinburgh Festival), Awake by K. Lorrel Manning (AssociateDirector/Dramaturg), Perp by Lyle Kessler (Assistant Director). With Lee Brock, she is Producing Director for F.A.B.Women@tbg (TBG’s women’s development group) where she has directed and produced since 2010. Beyond NYC, she directed The Half-Life of Marie Curie, By The Way Meet Vera Stark and The Cake (Naples Players, FL). Selected NY producing credits include: Triptych (The Barrow Group), Chasing Happy and Strings Attached (Pulse Theatre), Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet (The Curtain/Jersey City), Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton. In the independent film world, Christine is Co-Producer for the documentary feature UnBroken (Netflix) and for the short film, The Red Shoe (currently in the festivals). She is a member of NY Women In Film & TV (NYWIFT) and former Executive Vice-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women and graduate of University of Michigan. Associate Member, SSDC. 

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Melissa Chamberlain and Thank You Thank You Productions present
LOST AND FOUND
a new play by Angelica Gorga
to premiere Off-Broadway at AMT Theater this Fall
directed by Christine Cirker

LOST AND FOUND takes place in a laundromat in Brooklyn, New York on August 14th, 2003 during one of the largest blackouts in US history. With no electricity coming back anytime soon, two strangers stick together during a time of darkness and uncertainty. They pass time drinking, playing games, and folding laundry which ultimately leads them to form a connection and reveal their own secrets and pasts, discovering they have more in common than they think. This play shows us what grief can do in the aftermath of loss and the powerful connections we create when showing up for one another.

📲 https://www.lostandfoundplay.com

The CAST
Angelica Gorga (FOUND)
Ivàn Marcel (LOST)
Nelly Saviñon (NEIGHBOR)

The CREATIVE TEAM:
is Pauline Walsh (set design), Ryan Randazzo (lighting design), E.B. McKinney (costume and props design), and Kimberly S. O’ Loughlin (sound design). The production stage manager is Annie Beller.


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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

Produced by Alex Garrett

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with Angelica Gorga about life, New York City, and Lost and Found play. 

Angelica Gorga (Playwright, Co Producer, FOUND) is a writer, performing artist, and producer based in New York City. Theatre: Off Broadway’s Can Do Duck: The Musical (Nelly), Into the Woods (The Baker’s Wife), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sally), and Nine (Carla). Other credits include: Serendipity, Priorities, and Second Chances (Playwright/Director), The Picher Project at 54 Below, The Picher Project at Dixon Place, American Scoreboard: Betsy DeVos (Associate/Assistant Producer) and Positive: A Pilot Reading (Associate Director). Angelica produced and performed her first solo concert “A Night of Sinatra” at Don’t Tell Mama. She proudly trained at Rutgers Summer Acting Conservatory and Paper Mill Playhouse, both as a scholarship recipient and attended the William Esper Studio Summer Intensive. She studied English Language and Literature with a concentration in Writing at Pace University, Downtown Manhattan. Angelica is a proud member of The Dramatist Guild. She recently founded her production company - Thank You Thank You Productions.

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Melissa Chamberlain and Thank You Thank You Productions present
LOST AND FOUND
a new play by Angelica Gorga
to premiere Off-Broadway at AMT Theater this Fall
directed by Christine Cirker

LOST AND FOUND takes place in a laundromat in Brooklyn, New York on August 14th, 2003 during one of the largest blackouts in US history. With no electricity coming back anytime soon, two strangers stick together during a time of darkness and uncertainty. They pass time drinking, playing games, and folding laundry which ultimately leads them to form a connection and reveal their own secrets and pasts, discovering they have more in common than they think. This play shows us what grief can do in the aftermath of loss and the powerful connections we create when showing up for one another.

📲 https://www.lostandfoundplay.com

The CAST
Angelica Gorga (FOUND)
Ivàn Marcel (LOST)
Nelly Saviñon (NEIGHBOR)

The CREATIVE TEAM:
is Pauline Walsh (set design), Ryan Randazzo (lighting design), E.B. McKinney (costume and props design), and Kimberly S. O’ Loughlin (sound design). The production stage manager is Annie Beller.


AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!! 

AMTtheater.org
[email protected]
Social Media: @AMTtheater45  
https://www.amttheater.org

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AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

Produced by Meg Fierro - MeganFierro.com

This episode: Listen to Joanie and Pete talk with Cody Gerszewski about life, New York City, and A Room With A View, a NEW musical based on the classic novel by E.M. Forster with music and lyrics by Cody Gerszewski.

A ROOM WITH A VIEW: A New Musical adapted by Cody Gerszewski and directed by Jamibeth Margolis will have a special private industry presentation at AMT THEATER on Wednesday, September 17.

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A ROOM WITH A VIEW (winner of BEST PITCH for the 3rd Annual “Broadway Shark Tank” hosted by Open Jar Studios) is a NEW musical based on the classic novel by E.M. Forster with music and lyrics by Cody Gerszewski.  https://www.instagram.com/rwavmusical


AMT AFTER DARK with JOANIE & PETE, A podcast with Joan Pelzer and Pete Dorton talking to creative folks about their journey. You never know where the conversation will go...it's AFTER DARK AFTER ALL!!

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Social Media: @AMTtheater45  
https://www.amttheater.org

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