Lucier & Rose

CO-CREATOR

S.C. “Luci” Lucier (she/they) is an SDC director and a former member of the SCDF Observership Class of emerging directors. Lucier is a magna cum laude graduate of Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Directing program, where they received the department’s Gold Key of Excellence for her work in “innovative storytelling techniques.” They have also recently completed a master’s degree in Theatre History and Museology History + Digital Humanities at The Graduate Center (NYC), where they specialized in vaudevillian performers of male impersonation in the late 19th century.

Most recently, Luci co-wrote and produced the soundtrack for Xena: Warrior Musical with Rose.

Directing credits include: Director of HELD: A Musical Fantasy, written by Meghan Rose and Kelly Maxwell, at NY Fringe Festival 2016 and as a developmental reading at the New York Musical Festival (NYMF) 2018. Associate director of Kerrigan-Lowdermilk’s The Bad Years, the new immersive house party musical (first two iterations). Director of Steve Romagnali’s new play, Skip To My Lou, premiered at Theater for the New City 2017. Director of multiple Shakespeare in the parks for Hip to Hip Theatre Company, most recently A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2019.

Lucier has been a regular collaborator at Jennifer Jancuska’s (resident choreographer, Hamilton) The Bringabout and A*STIR, and was the production manager of Jancuska’s annual showcase of Broadway choreographers, called BC Beat, during its last few seasons. They have designed at the Joyce Theater for Richard Move’s The Show (Achilles Heels) in which Debbie Harry performed, designed at Lincoln Center’s Clark Studio Theatre, toured on the production team of the Martha Graham Dance Company (domestic tour and NYC seasons at City Center/the Joyce), and annually stage manages Cape Dance Festival (Provincetown, MA), among others. Lucier has also performed as a “dancer” at Baryshnikov Arts Center for choreographer Sally Silvers… on roller skates!

In her free time, Lucier captains one of New York City’s roller derby teams: The Bronx Gridlock (2018 NYC champions & 2019 undefeated NYC champions) and has also played on the world-championship roller derby team, Gotham All Stars, for five years. They are currently archiving the life’s work of Sally Silvers (to be accepted at Columbia University Library and New York Public Library) and working as the first staff member of the forthcoming American LGBTQ+ Museum (NYC).

“Director S.C. Lucier has shaped a heroic, big-hearted, and finely detailed mighty musical fable drenched in clear vision and perfectly executed staging. it’s a tight, well- polished, professional work that speaks of a successful rehearsal period where excellence was aimed for and achieved.” – NY Theatre Guide, HELD, Fringe Festival 2016

“I think it goes without saying that Lucier has successfully done just that by taking part in the creation of a world she wants to see, a stronger queer and human community through both her work and her daily life. It’s also very clear that she is succeeding in said childhood goal, ‘to do something that mattered.’” - Jana Prager, Tillt Magazine

"Steve Romagnoli's Skip to My Lou currently playing at Theater for the New City, is a drama of ideas, but it's also a drama... the air of constant and literal physical menace is something that the director S.C. Lucier artfully underscores throughout the production....” - Huffington Post

CO-CREATOR

Meghan Rose (she/her) is a composer and musician living in Brooklyn, NY. She is classically trained in piano and ‘did well, but not well enough’ in competitions, which led to writing her own material and playing in bands. She taught herself guitar at 16, joined a ska band in college at University of Wisconsin-Madison and has hopped from band to band and genre to genre ever since. Currently she plays bass in NYC bands Monte and LoveHoney, and plays bass and guitar for various shows around the city. In addition to performing in original bands, she has performed sold out shows impersonating Courtney Love, Janis Joplin, and Lindsey Buckingham. She has acted as a vocal instructor, bass teacher, and band coach for both the Madison and NYC chapters of Girls Rock Camp.

Rose began her career in theater as a music director for an improv company in Madison. From there she became a music director for the Bartell Theater for 6 years, and won awards for best music direction for Xanadu and Bare: A Pop Opera. During this time she collaborated with a colleague to write the score for Z-Town: The Zombie Musical which was accepted into the 2012 NY Fringe Festival. Other scores include an original rock musical called Alice based on Alice in Wonderland that ran at the Bartell Theater, Held: A Musical Fantasy, which was accepted into both the NY Fringe Festival in 2016 and as a developmental reading at the NY Musicals Festival (NYMF) in 2018.

Most recently she co-wrote and produced the soundtrack for Xena: Warrior Musical with Lucier.

Recent credits in NYC include: guitarist and vocalist for Nevermind The 90’s and History of Women in Rock at Café Wha, guitarist for Ring of Keys Queering the Canon at Joe’s Pub, guitarist for several cabarets at Feinstein’s 54 Below theater (54 Below Sings Pink, Demi Lovato, Amy Winehouse, and Broadway Baby Mamas), guitarist for Taylor Beyer’s lesbian cabaret The Spoon Ran Away With The Spoon (Off-Broadway), guitarist for Hit the Wall at The Stonewall Inn, guitarist for several productions of LezCab, guitarist for Thelma & Louise: Dyke Remix (Off-Broadway), and composer for Hip to Hip Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Parks production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

"super cinematic scores with the modern rock elements at just the right amounts" – review of Xena: Warrior Musical soundtrack, fan review

“the songs were both catchy and poignant...by the end of the show, Alice is singing a moving ballad "Who Am I" and I am so wrapped up in the show that I have forgotten where I am.” – review of Alice, Broadway World

“the songs — turned up to a volume level of 11 so the vibrations course through the seats — are the highlight of the 90-minute show” – review of Alice, The Isthmus

“Rose’s tragically beautiful orchestrations invite the audience to imagine time and place.” – review of Held, Theater is Easy

"the music transports you to this other land on a score of beautiful harmonies and sad refrains that seem to make you miss people that you have never met." – review of Held, NY Theatre Guide