(8/1999) Darryl Curry, a member of the Dramatists' Guild was a playwright/composer-in-residence at The Third Step Theatre Company in New York where he received critical acclaim for his musicals The Elephant Piece (Feb 1991), and Quitters (Mar 1992). There have been public readings of his play-with-music The Traum and his plays Heavenly Sunlight and Blue Skies. Heavenly Sunlight represented The United States in an international staged readings festival called Voices, produced by The Third Step Theatre Company in June 1990. Other Off and Off-Off Broadway credits include Will Kemp at The Sanford Maeisner and T.O.M.I Theatres, Dancing on the Third Rail at The Nameless, The Party Girl at The Hilton West, and Brothers and Sisters at The New York Theatre Ensemble.

His musical One Hundred Years appeared at Another Stage Workshop Theatre in Toronto, Canada. He has written a collection of Spanish songs with Jose R. Sanchez many of which were part of a Spanish Extravaganza at Weill Recital Hall, performed with string quartet by soprano Kathleen Cuvelier and Tenor Efren Puig. The Helitrope Group featured Mr. Curry's compositions in two programs - Nevertheless It's Love at CAMI Hall and Return Address at Pulse Ensemble Theatre. Darryl has two commissioned works: 1) The 46th Street Mass, commissioned by St. Clement's Episcopal Church (NY) in 1997, and 2) My Shadow, a ballet based on the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, commissioned by the Staten Island Ballet in 1998. Most recently Mr. Curry wrote the original music for the twentieth anniversary production of The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance. The scores for both the Ballet and Elephant Man are available on CD.

Mr. Curry is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he received his Lawrence A. Hutton Scholarship Award. He obtained his Master Degree in Music from Temple University and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City where he was granted special achievement award.

The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance is on stage Wed-Sat evenings at 8:00pm, Sun at 2pm, September 2-25, 1999. At the Theatre at St. Clement's, 423 West 46th Street, tel (212) 330-7911