Mark ArnestMark ArnestMark is a composer, arranger, pianist and music theorist in addition to writing about classical music, theater, and art for the Colorado Springs Gazette, which he's done since 1993. Though All About Love is his first musical, he's been composing for the theater ever since Murray Ross shanghaied him into being music director for University of Colorado at Colorado Springs' production of Monkey Business in 1988. Other scores for Theatreworks include The Winter's Tale (1992), Pericles (1991), Road to Mecca (1990), and Eleemosynary (1989-90). He's also composed music for productions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Open Egg Theater, for the independent film Massacres, and had a string quartet, In Memoriam S.J., performed by the Da Vinci Quartet. He and Lauren Krohn Arnest are currently working on a new musical, "Iron & Gold."
Mark created The Golden Age of Pianism, a 100-episode history of classical piano playing, on KCME radio and spent two seasons taunting opposing pitchers as organist for the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, a AAA baseball team. Other incarnations include a jazz pianist/vibraphonist/guitarist, editor for McGraw-Hill, and typographer.
A writer and editor with a legal education (Stanford Law School 1979), Ms. Arnest has had two books on legal topics for nonlawyers published by ABC-CLIO:Consumer Protection and the Law (1995) and Children, Young Adults and the Law (1998). She is also a linguist (Russian, German), cartoonist, and painter. Her margin illustrations grace Charles and Corrinne Brase's Understandable Statistics, 6th Edition (Houghton-Mifflin, 1999).
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Murray RossMurray Ross is a graduate of Williams College, with a Masters Degree from Berkeley. He has taught at Berkeley, the University of Rochester, Greenwich University (London) and the University of Colorado. He is the Artistic Director of Theatreworks, which he founded with colleagues in 1975. He has directed over 30 productions for Theatreworks, including 14 seasons of the summer Shakespeare Festival. Other productions include A Doll House, Death of a Salesman, Irma Vep, Grapes of Wrath, The Alchemist, Hedda Gabler, The Firebugs, Tom Paine, and Tartuffe.
He has directed for the Los Angeles Theatre Center, The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, and the Smokebrush Center for the Arts and Theater in Colorado Springs.
He has created productions of Shakespeare, Moliere and Ibsen performed with actors, dancers, singers and symphony orchestras in Colorado Springs, Cincinnati, and San Antonio. He has adapted Venus and Adonis, A Christmas Carol, Huckleberry Finn, and The Life of Frederick Douglass for the stage, and has written and produced a deconstruction of the Scopes Trial, Monkey Business.