Pam Tate / Book, Music, Lyrics
An award-winning writer, Pam Tate has written full-length and one-act plays, screenplays and
dramatic monologues. Her full-length stage play Pure Art: A Play About Leni Riefenstahl won The
National Women's Playwriting Award (Famous Door Theater in Chicago) and was a finalist at The
O'Neill Center's National Playwright's Conference. Pure Art has had readings at Chicago's
Famous Door, California's Aurora Theatre, Woodstock Fringe and Pulse Ensemble Theatre in NYC.
Pam has released two CDs of original music, the bluesy Die Happy and the pop-rock Dancing on
the Pyramids, both to international rave reviews and radio-play. 2004 saw the release of Pam's
third CD, Something Wonderful, a mix of standards, theater and pop tunes. Pam's music sells on
itunes, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble online and is played all over the world and she has
appeared in concert venues ranging from small clubs to stadiums of 50,000 people. Pam was
nominated in 2003 for a MAC AWARD for her cabaret show of original songs, "Love Lost and
Found,”directed by Erv Raible.
Pam performs yearly at The International Cabaret Conference at Yale University, for which she
serves on the board of directors as well as Associate Director. Pam was a featured
songwriter/performer in the NEW MONDAYS series at the Duplex in NYC and has participated in
the MAC/ASCAP Songwriters Showcase. Pam's compositions have been presented at the New
York Sheet Music Society.
As an actress, Pam has performed leading roles in musicals and plays in New York City and
regionally, including Sam Shepard's A Lie Of The Mind, Blood Brothers, Defiance and Women of
Manhattan, both by John Patrick Shanley, Major Barbara, Leader of the Pack, The Last Flapper,
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, and The Immigrant. Pam is a theatrical
director, especially fond of developing new plays with emerging playwrights.
Pam has a BA in Film Studies from The New School University, as well as a certificate in
screenwriting, and was recipient of the Joan Howard Kersner Scholarship in the Performing Arts.
She lives in NYC where she teaches acting, writes and composes music.
Pam has lent her talents to many benefit performances for worthy causes and has served as Head
Coordinator for Next Step Men's Homeless Shelter in NYC.
Pam is a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, BMI and The Dramatists
Guild. For more info see www.pamtate.com
Erv Raible / Lyrics
Erv Raible has written lyrics to songs performed in cabaret venues and musicals all over the
country. His work has been presented at the MAC/ASCAP Songwriter's showcase in NYC and
before the New York Sheet Music Society.
Might Have Written, which received a 1992 MAC Award nomination. Erv is also collaborating
with Jillann Gabrielle on the musical, Wallis and Edward. Erv is developing a Holocaust music
documentary, Silent Voices: Words & Music of the Holocaust, Hate, Hope and the Human Spirit
for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Erv is Executive Director of Cabaret & Concert Artists International, and a well-known New York
City based cabaret coach, director, publicist, consultant and talent representative. Erv is also the
Executive/Artistic Director of The Cabaret Conference At Yale University, an international
teaching program that offers an intensive look at the art of cabaret performance technique and
trains professionals for the live entertainment industry.
From 1988-1999 Erv owned and booked the legendary Eighty Eight's Cabaret Club and Piano
Bar. He has worked as Entertainment Director/Public Relations Liaison for The FireBird Café,
Lorenzo's, Don't Tell Mama Piano Bar & Cabaret, Brandy's Piano Bar and The Duplex Cabaret &
Piano Bar. Through these venues, Erv has presented over 4000 performers to the public.
Erv co-founded the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs; and currently serves as the
Advisory Board Chairman for the Washington, DC Cabaret Network, and on the Advisory Boards
of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists, Chicago Cabaret Professionals, Cabaret West/Los
Angeles, the West Michigan Cabaret Association and the Pacific Northwest Association of
Cabarets & Clubs.
Erv is the recipient of the 2007 Back Stage Bistro Award of Outstanding Excellence in
Programming for the Cabaret Conference at Yale University. Erv received the 2004 Back Stage
Bistro Award for Outstanding Director. Erv was a 2002, 2003 and 2004 MAC Award nominee for
Outstanding Director, received a Back Stage Bistro Award for the legendary Eighty Eight's, MAC
and Back Stage Bistro Awards for conceiving, producing and directing the musical revue“Here's
To Our Friends.” Erv received another Back Stage Bistro award for promoting cabaret and
founding MAC, and a Piaf d'Honneur from the French government for promoting, producing and
directing cabaret internationally. For more info see www.ervraible.com
Tex Arnold / Music Director, Arranger
Tex Arnold is a pianist, arranger, conductor and composer, whose credits include music director,
arranger and conductor for the legendary Margaret Whiting's radio, television, recording and
symphony orchestra performances for over 25 years. Tex has also played and/or conducted for
Larry Adler, Sally Mayes, Ruth Brown, Sally Ann Howes, Marilyn Michaels, Julius LaRosa, Rita
Moreno, Four Girls Four (Rose Marie, Helen O’Connell, Margaret whiting and Rosemary
Clooney), Carol Hall, Dick Shawn and most recently Melissa Erico.
After leaving Michigan State, Hubert “Tex” Arnold began his professional career in the late 60s
as a staff arranger for the US Military Band at West Point, while subbing on keyboard for the
Broadway musical Company, joining the national tour following his leaving the military. Tex
served as the musical supervisor, vocal arranger and orchestrator for the London production of
The Betrayal of Nora Blake.
Prior to this Tex was the 2001 musical director for the Off-Broadway show Pete n' Keely, the
musical director for the 2000 O'Neill Theater Center's concerts in St. Petersburg, Russia,
featuring the songs of Johnny Mercer performed by a company of American artists including
Sally Mayes and Julie Wilson.
Tex has written orchestrations for the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and the
Carnegie Hall tributes to the songwriting teams of Comden & Green and Alan and Marilyn
Bergman, and arranged and conducted the Johnny Mercer Tribute at the 92nd Street Y's Lyrics &
Lyricists series for Margaret Whiting, Julius LaRosa, Carol Woods and Marlene VerPlanck.
Tex's concert music has been commissioned and recorded, including performances of his
trumpet concerto by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and the CBC
Enterprise release of a work commissioned by the New York Saxophone Quartet.
Tex is a master teacher and music director for The International Cabaret Conference at Yale
University.
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