Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical

Music Supervisor, Music Producer, Arranger & Composer of “Remember My Name”
DANIEL MERTZLUFFT

Lyricist of “Remember My Name”
KATE LEONARD

Orchestrator & Co-Music Director
MACY SCHMIDT

Co-Music Director
EMILY MARSHALL

Producer
CARLY CALLAHAN

Actors
ANDREW BARTH FELDMAN
KEVIN CHAMBERLIN

MODERATED BY CHRIS VILLAIN & WESLEY RYAN  (Tik Tok Creators & Actors)

Screening Link available upon Registration

YouTube Live Stream Q&A:
Tuesday, June 22, 6:00PM PT

The TikTok musical sensation based on the Disney/Pixar film comes to delicious life for an unprecedented, community-written, Broadway-caliber, lip-smacking special event to benefit The Actors Fund. TV-PG | 60min

Daniel Mertzlufft is a classically trained composer, arranger, music director, songwriter, and TikTok influencer based in New York City. He is most known for his viral sensations The Thanksgiving Musical on The Late Late Show with James Corden featuring Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Josh Gad, Josh Groban, and Kristin Chenoweth, as well as his arrangement of “Remy The Ratatouille” by Emily Jacobson that launched the TikTok Ratatouille musical movement, and The Grocery Store Musical featured on ABC’s Good Morning America among other outlets, which is an arrangement of Lousia Melcher’s “New York Summer.” Daniel was also recently a creative leader for Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a live-streamed concert produced by Tony-winning Seaview Productions that raised over $2 million for The Actor’s Fund. Daniel’s original works include Breathe: Portraits from a Pandemic, Dot and the Kangaroo, and House Rules: A New Musical based on the New York Times Best Selling novel by Jodi Picoult. He also wrote on a new score for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, commissioned by Bay Area Children’s Theatre and a new score for Laura Eason’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer commissioned by MU Summer Repertory Theatre. 

Kate Leonard is a writer based in New York. In the musical theatre world, Kate is a lyricist and librettist, most frequently collaborating with composer and marvelous human being Daniel J. Mertzlufft. Recent projects include Breathe: Portraits from a Pandemic, a collaboration between five songwriting teams with a book by Timothy Allen McDonald and Jodi Picoult; the Broadway Junior show Dot and the Kangaroo, commissioned by iTheatrics and MTI Australasia; and Ratatouille: The Tik Tok Musical, a full musical adaptation of the Disney and Pixar film that began as TikToks by Dan and others. Kate is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop. Kate has also worked as a television script coordinator, working on House of Cards (Netflix), The Breaks (VH1), and The Looming Tower (Hulu). She has copy-edited three bestselling nonfiction books, including It’s Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston, and many scripts, outlines, and pitch documents for screenwriters and playwrights. 

Kate is a magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, where she wrote and produced a television pilot for her honors thesis. She can frequently be found in her hometown of Rochester, New York, playing trivia games with her parents.

Macy Schmidt is an Egyptian-American Orchestrator, Music Director, & Copyist based in New York City. She could be found working on the Broadway production of TINA: The Tina Turner Musical and the upcoming Disney revival of Aida, and as the Music Supervisor for the musical adaptation of Chelsea Clinton’s children’s book She Persisted at Atlantic Theatre Company. Most recently, she served as the Orchestrator for the acclaimed Ratatouille: The TiKTok Musical, for which her work was praised by The New York Times for its likeness to a “classic Disney Act I finale in the brassy manner of Alan Menken.”

Macy has taken her work across the globe as well — from China, where she’s music directed for an international musical theatre program in Shanghai, to India, where she worked on the music team for the West End-bound stage adaptation of Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding. As an educator, she has served on faculty at Manhattan School of Music and Cap21 Conservatory, and at Pace University as a professor of Music Theory. Macy is a proud graduate of the University of Florida, holding a B.A. in Music Theory, and a passionate advocate for women in music. 

Emily Marshall is an NYC-based music director. She is currently working on Be More Chill on Broadway. Credits include Head Over Heels, Elf, Beautiful, School of Rock, Mean Girls, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Waitress, and Annie on Broadway, We Will Rock You, A Chorus Line, Beauty and the Beast, Flashdance, Elf for national tours, Be More Chill, Preludes, Head Over Heels, Clueless, and Chix 6 off-Broadway, Pool Boy, The Coup, Fall Springs, Normativity, and On The Eve for festivals and readings. Emily also freelances as an accompanist, vocal coach, keyboard programmer, arranger & orchestrator. Her orchestrations have been performed around the world including performances by The American Pops Orchestra and recently at the Double Standards Benefit Concert benefiting Planned Parenthood at Town Hall.

Carly Callahan is a Connecticut and New York-based artistic entrepreneur focused on developing innovative live and digital entertainment experiences. As Managing Director of Seaview, a Tony and Olivier Award-winning production company, Carly most recently led the development of initiatives around Slave Play, the most Tony-nominated play in Broadway history with Black Out, The Golden Collection, and Broadway Plus One. Additionally, she worked to bring Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical to life in just over 30 days, which raised over $2 Million for The Actors Fund, making it their most successful fundraising event ever. Carly is a graduate of Brown University.

Andrew Barth Feldman will next be seen recurring in the second season of the Disney+ hit show High School Musical: The Series. He won the 2018 National High School Musical Theatre Award (aka the Jimmy Award) as a high school sophomore and went on to make his Broadway debut as the title character in the Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen as a junior in high school. In his “spare” time, Andrew runs a theatre company, Zneefrock Productions. Founded when Andrew was twelve years old, Zneefrocks productions raise money for charity and have included The Last Five Years, Be More Chill, and an original Star Wars musical called SW: A New(sical) Hope, among many others. 

In 2000, Kevin Chamberlin originated the role of Charlie in Claudia Shear’s Dirty Blonde which earned him his first Tony nomination and Drama Desk Nomination. The following year, he received his second Tony nomination, Drama Desk, and Grammy nomination for playing Horton the Elephant in Seussical. In 2010, he received his third Tony nomination for his portrayal of Uncle Fester in The Addams Family. Most recently, Kevin composed and performed the song “Anyone Can Cook” for the first-ever crowd-sourced musical – Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, which has been nominated for a Drama League Award and won The Webby Award. The online concert raised over 2 million dollars for The Actors Fund. His other credits include Chicago, The Ritz, Wicked, Hair, Spamalot, West Side Story, Little Shop of Horrors, The Prom, Die Hard, In and Out, Suspect Zero, Taking Woodstock, Lucky Number Slevin, The Road to Perdition, Christmas with the Kranks, Trick, Grace and Frankie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Modern Family, Younger, Heroes, CSI: NY, Frasier, nip/ tuck, Ed, Without A Trace, Kingpin, It’s All Relative, According to Jim, Law and Order SVU, and Jessie. Kevin also directs sitcoms for Disney Channel.

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Attendees will be emailed a Screening Link upon Registration and a Q&A YouTube Live Stream link on Tuesday, June 22, 10 minutes before Q&A start.

Attendees can ask questions on YouTube chat, and the SCL Host will pass them on to the Moderator. The SCL Member Code of Conduct applies to online Q&As.

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