Creative Team
Diana Belkowski & Dan Tramon (Composer - Lyricists)
With their musicals Flyer and Rocket Boys, Diana and Dan became two-time (consecutive-year, unprecedented) winners of the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Award in NY, participating in a workshop process under the direction of honored composer/lyricists Stephen Schwartz and Craig Carnelia. Diana and Dan are also alumni of the BMI Lehman–Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in NY, and are recipients of two Billboard Music Awards for work in musical theatre and Contemporary Christian music.
Flyer, based on the lives of the Wright Brothers, was first presented in full at the Lamb’s Mainstage Theatre in NYC, and subsequently presented in abridged concert form at Oklahoma City University in April 2006, selected for the Bass School of Music’s inaugural year promoting new works in musical theatre. In addition to its ASCAP workshop, Flyer was also a Finalist in Chicago STAGES 2004, and was previously presented in part at the North Carolina Festival of Flight 2003, sponsored by NASA and the US Air Force.
Rocket Boys (based on the New York Times #1 Bestseller book by NASA engineer Homer Hickam Jr.) had its full, staged reading premiere last May 2008 in Huntsville, AL (“Rocket City”), home to the Marshall Space & Flight Center and Mr. Hickam himself. Also in 2008, Rocket Boys won ANMT’s Search for New Musical Voices and was awarded a full reading and panel critique in Los Angeles. It had previously been presented in part at ASCAP with an esteemed cast of Broadway veterans (headed by Mark McVey & Terri Klausner), as well as Broadway Musical Director Joe Baker (Blood Brothers, The Life, Bells Are Ringing, Footloose).
Diana has traveled nationwide as a member of the Presidential Arts Committee, and has written material for both presidential and gubernatorial campaigns. A long-time Director of Sacred Music, she has extensively written for both children and adult choirs, and won numerous awards as a classical pianist during childhood. Other solo compositions include Clarissa (Circle Rep Theatre) and Tom Sawyer (Hudson Guild Theatre); a 50-song educational Book-Cassette series for Random House; jingles, and theme and credit music for two weekly TV newsmagazines. Her song, “Celebrate Life”, was commissioned by Equity Fights AIDS as an opening theme song for their annual NYC Benefit.
Dan is currently Production Sound Engineer for Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5, holding the same position for Disney’s recent Tarzan and Billy Joel’s Tony-winning Movin’ Out. He has served as Associate Sound Designer for numerous other Tony- winning Broadway shows, including City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, and Victor/Victoria, and as Production Sound Engineer for Swing, The Life, Annie, and many others. He was Music Programmer for Paul Simon’s Capeman, as well as the Broadway productions of Cats, Beauty and the Beast, and The King & I. Dan orchestrated and performed digital music for a new production of Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Westbeth Theatre and composed the musical sequences and pre show music for The Rocky Horror Show. He also composed the score for an adaptation of Moliere’s The Miser.
Donald Feltham (Additional Book)
Donald began his love of theatre over 30 years ago when he first set foot onstage in a production of The Music Man. Since then, he has been involved in virtually every aspect of theatre from costuming to producing. For the past several years, Donald has been a very successful radio host. Starting with Showtune Spotlight on KGIL-AM in Los Angeles, he then moved on to The Broadway Radio Hour for theatre’s well-known Fynsworth Alley. Donald currently hosts The Broadway Radio Show at HainesHisWay.com and The Wicked Stage at BroadwayWorld.com. Donald has also worked as a librettist on musical versions of The Enchanted Cottage and Somewhere In Time, both with scores by Alan Wager. Donald is thrilled to be a part of Flyer working along side the very talented Diana Belkowski and Dan Tramon.
