An Evening with Broadway Composers David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and friends moderated by JBFC Board Member Dori Berinstein

Wednesday, Jan. 7 2026, 7:00

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David Yazbek's projects include: Broadway: Music and Lyrics for The Band’s Visit (10 Tony Awards), Dead Outlaw, Tootsie, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty. Larry David’s Fish In The Dark, The Roommate. Buena Vista Social Club (Producer/ Creative Consultant.) Albums: Solo Albums include The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus!, Tape Recorder, Evil Monkey Man. He is currently completing a new album and continues to perform with his band. The New York Times called him “A daredevil juggler catching spiked pins in the traveling carnival of his imagination." He has co-produced all of his cast-albums including The Band’s Visit (Grammy Award).  TV and Film: Boardwalk Empire, Late Night with David Letterman (Emmy Award Best Writing), hundreds of songs, including the infamous Carmen Sandiego Theme. Dozens of scripts for episodic TV.  In the works are a new musical with Jeffrey Lane, A Dead Outlaw documentary film and other secret exciting stuff. Yazbek has received every major American Theater award, many grants and honors and, most recently, a successful colonoscopy from Digestive Disease Associates of Rockland. Erik Della Penna is a composer, lyricist, instrumentalist and vocalist who has appeared on over 60 rock, pop, and Americana albums. He has toured and recorded extensively with Joan Osborne, Natalie Merchant, and Joan Baez, and has worked with legendary music producer T-Bone Burnett. He is conservatory-trained, holding a BFA in Classical Guitar from the Mannes School of Music (now The New School). He also plays the banjo, lap steel guitar, and mandolin. In 2024 he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics for the musical, Dead Outlaw.