{"id":833,"date":"2013-11-13T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T17:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2022-10-29T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:03:42","slug":"chip-deffaa-%e2%80%a2-author-and-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"Chip Deffaa \u2022 Author and Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"265_scan0003ChipDeffaaPortrait\"<\/a>ASCAP\/Deems Taylor Award-winner Chip Deffaa is\u00a0 an internationally-produced \u00a0playwright with seven scripts to his credit and director with a great love of show business.\u00a0 He is also the author of eight acclaimed books dealing with music and popular culture, including Blue Rhythms and Voices of the Jazz Age, both published by the University of Illinois Press.
\nIn the past year, Deffaa has been\u00a0 represented, as a playwright and director,\u00a0 with three different plays at three different festivals in New York–“The Seven Little Foys” at the Fringe Festival, “Theater Boys” at the Fresh Fruit Festival, and “A Few Moments…” at the Strawberry Festival.\u00a0 In addition, his award-winning “George M. Cohan Tonight!” opened at the Edinburgh, Scotland, Fringe Festival.\u00a0 And\u00a0 his “Johnny Mercer Jamboree” is currently running at the Rochester Downstairs Cabaret Theatre.
\nFor 18 years, Deffaa covered entertainment–including jazz, cabaret, and theater–for The New York Post.\u00a0 He has written for magazines ranging from Down Beat to Entertainment Weekly.\u00a0 He has won an ASCAP\/Deems Taylor\u00a0Award, a \u00a0New Jersey Press Association Award and IRNE AWARD (Independent Reviewers of New England).
\nHe is a member of the Dramatists Guild,\u00a0 the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, the Drama Desk, the American Theater Critics Association, the Jazz Journalists Association, and NARAS (which awards the Grammy’s).
\nHe has written and directed in New York no less than five different shows about George M. Cohan–the most recent being \u201cGeorge\u00a0 M. Cohan Tonight!\u201d\u00a0 (starring Jon Peterson), originally produced Off-Broadway in New York \u00a0by the Irish Repertory Theater.\u00a0That show has been produced in numerous cities, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Coral Springs, Florida, to Edinburgh, Scotland and Seoul, Korea!
\nThe George M. Cohan Project originated at the Chip Deffaa Invitational Theater Festival, held\u00a0at the Chashama Theaters on 42nd Street, New York City.
\nDeffaa has written assorted other shows, too, including The Johnny Mercer Jamboree, Mad About the Boy, One Night with Fanny Brice,\u00a0 The Family that Sings Together, Song-and-Dance Kids, and Theater Boys.\u00a0\u00a0 His\u00a0musical comedy The Seven Little Foys\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0recently had its world premiere\u00a0at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, Connecticut, and then had its New York premiere at the Fringe Festival.
\nDeffaa graduated from Princeton University, where he was an editor of The Tiger Magazine.\u00a0 He has been a trustee of The Tiger\u00a0 for more than a quarter-century.
\nDeffaa also has written liner notes for countless albums, including ones by such Grammy Award-winning artists as Miles Davis, Ruth Brown, Diane Schuur, Benny Goodman, Tito Puente, Ray Brown, and the Count Basie Orchestra.<\/p>\n

For more information visit: http:\/\/www.chipdeffaa.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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