Background
Santoriello was born in Summit, New Jersey and grew up in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and graduated from Governor Livingston High School in 1983.
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Jill Santoriello
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Santoriello is a Carr Van Anda honors graduate of the School of Journalism. She is also an alumna of the BMI and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Musical Theater Workshops.
Career
On September 18, 2008, Santoriello"s Broadway musical adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities officially opened at the First Rate (at Lloyd's) Hirschfeld Theatre in New York, from previews on August 19. The musical"s producers announced on November 4 that the show would be closing on November 16, but closed earlier than expected on November 9. In 2009, Santoriello adapted the musical for the concert stage and co-produced a television filming of the concert at the historic Theater Royal in Brighton, England.
This television program will be broadcast on public television, WGBH-Boston in December 2009 and a Digital Video Disc of the show will be made available.
Santoriello also co-produced an accompanying studio recording of the score for simultaneous release with the television show. She also contributed to the music and lyrics to the musical version of Diana Gabaldon"s Outlander.
Music by Kevin Walsh and lyrics by Mike Gibb. Her current project is writing a musical of the 1913 Eleanor H. Porter novel Pollyanna.
Achievements
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She is a self-taught musician (playing piano "by ear") whose award winning first musical A Tale of Two Cities was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Musical in 2009. In addition to the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding New Musical, "Tale" also received an additional Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor and 3 Drama Desk Award nominations. The world premiere production at the Asolo Theatre was nominated for 12 Sarasota Theater Awards and won 10, including "Best Musical".
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