Directors' Post

Isaac Klein




Matt Cowart








From their posts in NYC, the writer /director team of Matt Cowart and Isaac Klein sent the following:

We are absolutely thrilled to be teaming up with the Open Dream Ensemble for this year's production of our brand-new musical, Dream Machines: the inspiring story of the Wright Brothers and their equally brilliant sister, Katharine. Rehearsals with the cast begin Monday, July 6th, but our work (well, it doesn't usually feel like work to us) began many months ago.

For starters, we put our heads together with Open Dream to find a subject matter that made for a compelling, exciting story and was strongly complimentary to the North Carolina School Curriculum. Once we made the Wright choice, we were ready to start building our script. The first step was to identify all the important moments that we knew had to be in the show. For instance, when the brothers first become fascinated with flight; when they first arrive in North Carolina; or when their plane first takes off. Once we had the key moments of the story mapped out, we began to capture them on paper, as well as dream up some moments in-between. When we first met with our music team, Joshua Morgan and James Stewart, we had only a partial script in hand. We knew for the most part which moments wanted to be expressed in song, but it wasn't until Joshua and James brought their talent and creativity to our collaboration that the songs fully took shape and came to life. We now have a script and score that we can't wait to bring into the rehearsal room with our diverse and wildly talented cast; that's when things will really take off.

Meanwhile, we've been very busy creating the visual world of our show with our design team, Ren LaDassor and Travis McHale, but that's a story for another blog...

Dream On.
Matt and Isaac