Lauren Pritchard is a woman of many talents. She originated the role of Ilse in the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Spring Awakening. She wrote the music and lyrics of the Off-Broadway hit, Songbird, (book by Michael Kimmel). She can be heard singing on the radio with bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, Lemaitre and artists like Matt Nathanson. She can be seen onstage as she tours across the country with her band…and you can also find her performing in the NEXT Concert Series: Bridge the Gap concert at Feinstein’s/54 Below tomorrow, June 6th. 
The NEXT concert series has run both in the US and in the UK as a platform for new musical theatre writers to share their work.
Now, in the next phase of this concert series, writers from both sides of the pond will unite to share their work-featuring brilliant talent from the New York theatre community.
This first volume of Bridge the Gap will showcase the work of British musical theatre writers, Mark Allcorn, Finn Anderson, Tim Connor, Danny Davies, Gus Gowland, James Michalos, Eamonn O’Dwyer, and Kate Malaris and Alex Young.
Pritchard will complete a cast that features the dazzling vocal stylings of Maddie Shea Baldwin (Bright Star), Preston Truman Boyd (She Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish), Chad Carstarphen (In the Heights Nat’l Tour, Beth and Charly), Marisa Dargahi, David R. Gordon, Jennifer Haining, F. Michael Haynie (Wicked, Dogfight, NBC’s Peter Pan LIVE!), Christopher Hlinka (Mamma Mia! Nat’l Tour), Melissa Rose Hirsch (The Bad Years), Lizzie Klemperer (Bright Star), Alicia Krakauer, Angelo McDonough, Molly Model, T.J. Newton, Daniel Plimpton (Book of Mormon, Spring Awakening Nat’l Tour), Christina Sajous (Holler if You Hear Me, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Baby It’s You, American Idiot), Ariana Sepúlveda, and Mathieu Whitman (A Christmas Carol Nat’l Tour, Pinkalicious the Musical), with additional performers to be announced!
A portion of the evening’s proceeds will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Follow along our rehearsal journey with the hashtag #songstoheal.
The evening is co-produced by Alicia Krakauer and Megan Minutillo. Minutillo directs, with musical direction by Brad Gardner.
BRIDGE THE GAP plays Feinstein’s/54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on June 6th at 9:30pm. There is a $25-$35 cover charge and $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.com. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00 are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.