SAMI HORNEFF & AMANDA D’ARCHANGELIS

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Amanda D'Archangelis (Music) and Sami Horneff (Lyrics) met in the world-renowned BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. After being paired for the final project of their first year course, D'Archangelis and Horneff quickly realized they had found a life-long partnership. 

That class assignment later developed into their first full-length musical together (and their Off-Broadway debut as a team). Single Rider ran at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village for five weeks in the summer of 2018 and was subsequently presented at the University of Alabama. Single Rider has since been optioned by David Treatman Creative.

Amanda and Sami's other recent work includes The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical (in collaboration with Lisa Mongillo), which was a 2022 NAMT semi-finalist, a five-time winner at The 2021 National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival after a virtual production at Western Connecticut State University, and most recently had its first NYC industry presentation directed by Tony Winner Marissa Jaret Winokur and starring Tony Nominees Andy Karl and Orfeh; The Break, which had its premiere reading in 2018 through the Omaha Creative Institute and has since been showcased at Lied Center for Performing Arts; and Coming Attraction, a new musical about the life of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, which premiered at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI. They are currently developing Bandit Queen, a small-cast folk-pop musical centering on Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s most notorious female bandit, as well as Pandora in Blue Jeans with book by Adam Fox Morrison, which explores the life of controversial “Peyton Place” author Grace Metalious.

Their work has also been performed at famed concert venues across New York City, including The Green Room 42, The Duplex, Prohibition NYC, Lincoln Center, Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, The Metropolitan Room, and Feinstein's/54 Below. D'Archangelis and Horneff also wrote two songs for the feature film A Ring for Christmas, which played on the UPtv network throughout the 2020 holiday season and is now available on Prime Video. In 2019, they were named York Theatre Company’s New/Emerging/Outstanding (NEO) Writers, and in 2023, they were Artists in Residence at The Legacy Theatre in Branford, CT. Most recently, their work was highlighted as part of Playbill’s Songwriter Series.

To learn more, follow Amanda and Sami on instagram at @darchangelisandhorneff or visit their websites: www.amandadarchangelis.com and www.samihorneff.com

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