WHO’S WHO

Co-Artistic Director/Producer

CHRISTOPHER EICKMANN, M.F.A. is the co-founder of Lila Theatre. He has worked as a producer, musician, writer, improvisor, and sound designer/engineer on a number of productions, including: Broadway: City Center Encores!® Great American Musicals in Concert-On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Off-B’way: Beautiful Warrior, Bonnie and Clyde, National Alliance for Musical Theatre-Festival of New Musicals, Surviving Grace, This Thing of Darkness. San Francisco: A Little Bit of Broadway, The Last Five Years, Life and Adventures, Love Letters, New Voices Cabaret, The Razowsky Project, Reflections, Sacrifices & Transformations, The Santaland Diaries, Twinspeak, Uninhibited, With Love We Travel, Other Regional: Big Stinkin’ International Improv Festival, C.M. Phillips Center-visiting National Tours: Alvin Alley Dance Theatre, West Side Story, Walt Disney Entertainment: Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, The Little Mermaid. Universal Studios: The Barney Show. Composer–stage: The Naked Family, To Live or Die, The Lobster and the Crab, and Orestes. Composer-film: Potato Sac and Little Men. Mr. Eickmann studied musical improv direction and producing at The Second City (Chicago) and has had the great opportunity to study within colloquiums and workshops lead by Lynn Ahrens, Del Close, William Finn, Stephen Flaherty, Tina Landau, Alan Menken, Mick Napier, Michael Pollock, and George C. Wolf. Mr. Eickmann received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied producing with Margo Lion, producer of such Broadway productions as Hairspray and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. He was a new writer’s resident at Goodspeed Musicals and has participated in the Chicago Improv Festival. Mr. Eickmann runs Lila's Studio and serves as the resident composer and musical director of Lila Theatre. He is a recipient of the TSOA Grad Scholarship and is a member of ASCAP, TBA, and GANG. In addition to his work at Lila Theatre, Mr. Eickmann currently works as a staff composer/sound designer at Creativity, Inc.

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