Miss Mitchell runs approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

 

A Window on the Infinite 
Acoustic Guitars: Tommy
Vocals: Ensemble
Cello:  Laura and Sydney
Percussion: Debbie

Binary Star 
Acoustic Guitars: Alex & Tommy
Drums: Debbie
Cello:  Sydney
Vocals: Eloise, Laura

Island Girls
Acoustic Guitars: Debbie, Tommy
Lead vocals: Debbie
Backing vocals: Eloise, Laura, Sydney
Cello: Laura
Drums: Alex
Tambourine: Eloise
Claps: Sydney, Eloise

True North
Acoustic guitar, vocals: Alex
Mandolin: Tommy
Cello: Sydney and/or Laura
Drums: Debbie
Vocals: Ensemble

The Far Away
Piano: Tommy
Acoustic Guitar: Alex
Cello: Sydney
Percussion: Debbie / Eloise
Vocals: Laura, ensemble

Sweeping
Acoustic Guitar: Alex
Piano: Tommy
Cello: Sydney
Vocals: Eloise

Watch You Watching
Acoustic Guitars: Alex, Tommy
Cello: Sydney
Vocals, Cello: Laura
Drums: Debbie

Did I See?
Acoustic Guitar: Alex
Acoustic 2: Tommy
Drums: Debbie
Bass: Laura
Cello: Sydney
Vocals: Eloise

My Dear Maria
Piano: Debbie
Cello: Sydney
Cello 2: Laura
Vocals: Tommy

Starlit Night
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals: Tommy
Cello: Laura and/or Sydney
Piano: Debbie ( Shine a Light choruses TBD)
Light Hand Percussion (shaker): Eloise
Mandolin: Alex
Vocals: Ensemble

Is It Written in the Stars?
Acoustic guitar: Tommy
Cello: Laura and Sydney
Vocals: Laura, Eloise, Sydney, Debbie

Look For Yourselves
Piano: Tommy
Cellos: Sydney, Laura
Vocals: Eloise

Calculus Song

Lady Grey
Acoustic Guitar: Alex
Piano: Tommy
Vocals: Laura
Cello: Sydney

I Wanna See a Shooting Star
Electric Guitar: Tommy
Acoustic Guitar: Debbie
Drums: Alex
Bass: Laura
Lead vocals: Debbie, Sydney
Ensemble Vocals: Laura

William Letter Song
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals: Alex

Watching the Waves on Cisco Beach
Piano: Tommy
Acoustic guitar: Alex
Drums: Debbie
Cellos: Sydney, Laura
Vocals: Eloise, Laura

A Window on the Infinite (Reprise)
Ensemble Vocals
Piano: Tommy
Cello: Laura or Sydney
Acoustic Guitar : Alex
Drums: Debbie

The Lobbyists are a band and theater collective building a home for actor-musicians, creating new work at the intersection of band performance and theatrical storytelling that deepens our connection to history and the present. Noted for their lush harmonies, “marvelous” songwriting (NY Times), and “impressive musicianship” (Entertainment Weekly). Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in a Musical for SeaWife (Naked Angels/South St. Seaport). 2021 Jonathan Larson Award finalists. Listen and learn more at www.wearethelobbyists.com and wherever you get your music and podcasts.

Tommy Crawford (George Bond, Music & Lyrics, Text, Music Director, Orchestrations, he/him) is an actor, musician, composer, singer-songwriter, and dad. Recent roles include Maks in Ironbound (Shaker Bridge), Feste in Twelfth Night (Two River), and Paul McCartney in NYT Critics’ Pick Only Yesterday (59e59). Tommy shares a Drama Desk nomination with The Lobbyists for the score of SeaWife. Tommy is collective leader, music director, and a founding member of the group. Tommy is also a solo singer-songwriter. New album out Sept 16. www.tommycrawford.com & tommycrawford.bandcamp.com 

Laura Dadap (Phebe Mitchell, Text, Additional Orchestrations, she/her) is dedicated to cultivating activism and the arts in collaboration through music and storytelling. Recently in Bhangin’ It (La Jolla Playhouse) and Off Broadway in Ars Nova’s Oratorio for Living Things (2020 Company). Proud mama, Emerson BFA Acting graduate, founding member of Macabre Americana, a folk fusion band shedding light on the dark side of American history, and a core member of The Lobbyists. Laura and her husband own and operate Djablo Sauce, Filipino hot sauce that packs a mighty punch! www.lauradadap.com

Eloise Eonnet (Maria Mitchell, Text, she/her) Founding member of The Lobbyists. ​Credits include plays and concerts by The Lobbyist and many plays and readings with Ars Nova, The Flea, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, White Heron Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theater/Youngblood, NY Stage and Film, Williamstown Theater Festival, and many others. Feature film credits: Madeline, Passion of Mind, L’acqua..il Fuoco and According to Her. Nominated for 2016 Drama Desk Award for critically acclaimed production: Seawife.

Alex Grubbs (William Mitchell, Music & Lyrics, Text) founding member of The Lobbyists where he’s enjoyed performance and development opportunities at Naked Angels, EST, New York Stage and Film, Ars Nova, Page 73, The Flea, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, White Heron Theatre Company and many others. Nominated for 2016 Drama Desk Award for critically acclaimed production: Seawife. Other theatre credits : Spill, Kentucky (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Miss Keller Has No Second Book (Gulfshore Playhouse) Utility (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Seawife (Naked Angels), Mary Kate Olson Is In Love, A cautionary Tail, These Seven Sicknesses (The Flea). lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, M.F.A in Acting from the University of Virginia.

Kara Kaufman (Stage Manager): Selected Off-Broadway: Nomad Motel (Atlantic), Sojourners and Her Portmanteau (NYTW), Kingdom Come (Roundabout), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d, Hello From the Children of Planet Earth, Sojourners (Playwrights Realm), Today Is My Birthday (P73), Travels With My Aunt, John & Jen (Keen Company), SeaWife (Naked Angels), Monsoon Season (AFO), I See You, The Mysteries, Restoration Comedy, These Seven Sicknesses, Kaspar Hauser (Flea), Dani Girl (EPBB), and Hold Music (Living Theatre). Proud AEA member and Harvard grad.

Mikhaela Mahony (Director, Additional Text) is a Brooklyn-based director working at the intersection of theatre, opera, and film. She is a frequent collaborator with Ensemble Studio Theatre and Youngblood, and has developed work with New York City Opera, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, The Syndicate, City Lyric Opera, the Collaborative Arts Ensemble, The Juilliard School, the Chautauqua Institution, Rutgers’ Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the Manhattan School of Music. She is currently the Associate Director of Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma!, and co-authoring a book with choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas. mikhaelamahony.com

Erin J. Reifler (Associate Music Director, Additional Orchestrations, she/her) is composer/lyricist, music director, and trombonist. With collaborator Zonia Tsang, 2021 New Voices Project Merit Award Winners in collaboration with Disney Imagineering. She is the Music Supervisor for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Music Theater Conference. Selected music team credits include Paradise Square (Barrymore), West Side Story (Broadway), Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova – Greenwich House), and Cyrano (Daryl Roth). BA: Brown University MFA: NYU Tisch GMTWP. www.erinjreifler.com

Kristin Slaney (Story) is a playwright and screenwriter originally from Nova Scotia, currently based in Brooklyn. She was a 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab fellow with her screenplay Agora Borealis, and she is also an alum of the Obie Award-winning playwriting group Youngblood. Her plays have been produced and/or developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, White Heron Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Pipeline Theatre, Ship’s Company Theatre, Spicy Witch Theatre, and the QueerActs Festival. She has received commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and Ensemble Studio Theatre, and has been the recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant. She is currently working on the third season of Law & Order: Organized Crime. MFA: Columbia.

Sydney Shepherd (Anna, Additional Text & Orchestrations) is an actress/singer/cellist/multi-instrumentalist living and working in New York City. She’s acted in many a project from indie films to commercials to video games to Broadway. Right before the pandemic she starred as Lyla in the world premiere of August Rush the musical. She is 1/3 of the acclaimed indie folk-pop band Bandits on the Run and has written and performed music for many film scores, musicals, and cartoons. 

Additional text, orchestrations, and/or dramaturgy: Anya Gibian, Angel Lin, Tony Aidan Vo, Sarah Elizabeth Wansley

Special thanks: Almanack Colony, Liz Carlson, Ensemble Studio Theater, Jascin N. Leonardo Finger, Linsay Firman, Graeme Gillis, Colton Johnson, Maria Mitchell Association, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Stage and Film, The Sloan Foundation, White Heron Theater