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
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 and 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 was most recently seen in John Patrick Shanley’s Defiance, and 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 Actor’s Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, BMI and The Dramatists Guild.
For more info see www.pamtate.com
Erv Raible / Lyrics
His work has been presented at the MAC/ASCAP Songwriter’s showcase in NYC and before the New
York Sheet Music Society.
Have Written, which received a 1992 MAC Award nomination. Erv is currently co-writing lyrics with Pam
Tate for Ship Of Fools. Erv is also collaborating with Jillann Gabrielle on the musical, Wallis and
Edward. Erv is in the process of 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 the Executive Director of Cabaret & Concert Artists International, and is 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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