A musical celebrating the life of   Edgar Allan Poe


About Us:  Production: Found in a Bottle, LLC.

Production: Found in a Bottle, LLC is the vehicle which owns all of the copyrights for this project. By bringing all the rights together into one entity, a single negotiating and decision making unit exists for all aspects of the development of the show. Its members include:


David Kogeas (Book)
Kogeas has had the pleasure of seeing his work staged and filmed beginning in his teen years with his musical Benjamin, his one-act The Ghost of Mr. Vanfoof, and his screenplay Bad Day. He enjoyed successful runs of his plays Murderous Semester and Suds-N-Suds at the Glassboro Lab Theatre. His one-act play The Newcomer was performed at Playwright’s Horizons’ Love Fest. David’s short film Waiting for Faith won Best New Script at the Temecula Film Festival and his short film Serendipity was produced shortly after.

David is the founder of the digital video production company Kinetic Chaos that has produced six half hour episodes of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network show, Travelers. Kinetic Chaos also produced the comedy Shakespeare XXXVIII and the feature length Murderous based on his play Murderous Semester. Murderous premiered at the New York City National Arts Club.

Mr. Kogeas earned his B.A. degree in English from Rowan University (1994)


David Lehrer (Executive Producer)
Lehrer is beginning a new career as a farmer in County Cork, Ireland. When he is not tending his vegetable patch, he can be found in Dublin or New York. He and his wife Shiela Lehane also are co-producers of The Lieutenant of Inishmore on Broadway.


Arthur Lieberman (Producer)
Lieberman is an attorney and a leading expert on intellectual property law.

In the Entertainment field, he was responsible for having put together a multimedia (franchise) approach for Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Kull and Solomon Cane.

He is currently partnered with Stan Lee (creator of Marvel’s Spiderman, Hulk and XMen) in POW! Entertainment and is involved in a myriad of new projects partnered with the elite of the entertainment companies such as MGM, Cheyenne, Universal, MTV and Nickelodeon with over 20 projects currently in development.


David Lenchus (Music & Lyrics)
Lenchus has contributed musical scores and/or songs (music and lyrics) to the following: Theater: American in Tokyo; Benjamin; Chrysalis; Cloud Nine; The Dictionary Meaning of Life; Fzoria; Ghost of Marilyn; Concert music: Dance in Blue; Four for String Quartet; Judgment at Nuremberg; Kirby’s Corner; Three Children: for Violin and Piano; Variations on the Three Blind Mice; Film and Media: Shakespeare 38; Lost In A Fishbowl; Travelers; Bob and Frank; Wonder Woman, Batman, Star Trek (for Warner Bros/DC Comics Website)

David’s work has been presented by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Pittsburgh Ballet Theater; Quarteto Latino-Americano; American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the New York National Arts Club among other institutions and performing companies.

He conducted the BCI Choir and Ensemble in the televised premier of Robert Strassberg’s Prelude in Beverly Hills, CA and has also appeared at Carnegie Hall, Giants Stadium and Disneyland.

Mr. Lenchus is an alumnus of Berklee College of Music; Boston Conservatory; The Brandeis-Bardin Institute; The Conductors’ Institute of South Carolina; and is a summa cum laude graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

 

 

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