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 has been produced in New York, regional theatres, and in licensed productions at universities and high schools. First completed in a workshop production at NYU, the show has gone on to The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, TX, in collaboration with Sam Houston State University, the 2006 Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Sammy and Dan 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. Readings included 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 and was sung by Anthony Rapp at The New Globe's star-studded Variations on Shakespeare benefit.

The Seven-Year B*tch has played sold-out engagements at the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, the Laurie Beechman Theater and most recently at The York Theatre Company.

Vital Theatre commissioned and produced Bucquisto's musical The Frog and the Witch and will produce a new show, in collaboration with bookwriter Aurin Squire, coming in fall 2009.

Sammy and Dan are currently at work on Andy Warhol Was Right, a dance musical in the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Individually, Sammy (Class of '87) is the screenwriter of the upcoming feature Red Hook and one of the three writers of Fade to White. An Emmy Award-winning member of the TV Land Awards Digital team, he has two weekly blogs on tvland.com: Prime and Myths & Legends, He has written loads of trivia games for TV Land Digital, including Star Trek and M*A*S*H. In addition to his theatre work with Dan, Sammy 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. He also wrote 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). An alumnus of the USC Filmic Writing program, the Warner Bros. Comedy Writing Workshop and The Groundlings School, 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 (Wild About Harry - NYMF 2008, 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.

To hear other stuff they've written, check out www.bucquisto.com.

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