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Tina
Lear has been writing music since she could put together a decent
sentence. Trained early in classical piano, she started writing
songs at age 14. As a professional singer/songwriter she produced
three CDs: Classified Ads (1994), Full Moon, Big Circle (1998) and
The Road Home (2000), which have received airplay on over 100 public,
college and commercial radio stations nationwide. Tina
has been featured at Seattle's Northwest Folklife, Austin's South
By Southwest Film Festival and Conference (SXSW) and the Nashville
New Music Conference. In
1999, she began collaborating with Elise Forier and writing music
for the theatre. Since then, the Lear/Forier team have completed
three family musicals and are working on two more. Cathy’s
Creek, one of their musicals, was published by Dramatic Publishing
in 2005. In
2007, she received her MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU (Tisch
School of the Arts). She is a proud mother of three. She and her
partner live on Long Island (NY), where we need more Trader Joes!
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