SAMMY BUCK (bookwriter & lyricist) and DANIEL S. ACQUISTO (composer) are the 2007 winners of a Talking Broadway Summer Theatre Festival citation for Outstanding New Musical for their show The Seven-Year B*tch and the 2004 winners of The National Music Theater Network and The Theater for the American Musicals’ inaugural New Voices Prize for Like You Like It.

Like You Like It was most recently produced at Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, TX, in collaboration with Sam Houston State University. The show was also an official selection of the 2006 Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre and an audience favorite at the 2004 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Sammy and Daniel have developed Like You Like It at the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild’s Jonathan Larson Musical Theatre Fellowship Program, working under the invaluable tutelage of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, and mentors David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr. Like You Like It has been workshopped at NYU and the McCadden Theatre in LA, and has had readings at the York Theatre, the Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals in Issaquah, WA, and Musical Mondays at the Century Center in New York. “Bucquisto” songs have been performed at the N.E.O. Benefit at the York Theatre, Broadway Bound at Merkin Hall, NAMT/ASCAP’s “In The Wings” at the NAMT Festival, and Any Minute Now’s “A Beat Ahead” series. Their song “Be With Me” is featured on the N.E.O. at the York Theatre CD, performed by Matt Cavenaugh.

The Seven-Year B*tch has played sold-out engagements at the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Beechman Theater in November, 2007, and is slated for a spring production.

Individually, Sammy (Class of '87) is the screenwriter of the upcoming feature Red Hook and an alumnus of the USC Filmic writing program, the Warner Bros. Comedy Writing Workshop and The Groundlings School. An Emmy Award-winning member of the 2005 TV Land Awards website writing team, he has also written the trivia games for Star Trek and M*A*S*H on tvland.com. He was commissioned to write the book for Common Grounds, a unique dance-musical collaboration among five top choreographers, which earned runner-up for Most Promising New Musical at NYMF '06. Other theatre works include the play Barry the Hatchet (All Out Arts Festival, Jerome Foundation Grant) and the short musical 51 in Raw Impressions (Paul Scott Goodman, composer/lyricist). He is a member of BMI and The Dramatists Guild, Inc. Check out sammybuck.com.

Daniel (Class of '88) received his MM in Composition (acoustic and electronic) from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He has been commissioned to write pieces for theatre (Dancing in the Dark, Antigone: The Rock Musical - Studio Arena Theatre, Tada!, seven children’s musicals for Merkin Hall, Indiana State Fair), incidental theatre music Subjective Theatre Company, All Out Arts Festival), as well as non-theatrical commissions (United States Air Force Clarinet Quartet, U. of Cincinnati Men’s Chorus [Shawnee Press, publisher], U. of Cincinnati News Media Department). He also participated writing ten-minute musicals for the ATrainMusicals, Raw Impressions, and FUSE concert theatre group. He has scored three film shorts (including Swept) and participated in the NYU/ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. Daniel is also a music director, percussionist, arranger, and orchestrator. In addition to that, he works as a music copyist and music educator. Daniel thanks his friends and family for their support and God for everything else. Member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild, Inc.

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All of the actors, directors, choreographers, and designers who have worked on the various incarnations of the show as well as: