Act 1

1. The Angry Grammarian - Greg, Ensemble

2. The Right Space - Greg, Web

3. Bring in Da Funk, Bring in Da Wagnalls - Lisa, Miriam

4. I Bet He Never Dangles - Lisa

5. Grammar-Pocalypse! - Web, Miriam, Greg, Lisa, Ensemble

6. Like Subject and Verb - Lisa, Greg

7. Lie With Me and Lay Me - Greg, Lisa

8. They're There - Greg, Lisa, Barista, Student, Ensemble

9. The Comma With Too Many Names - Greg, Ensemble

10. Like Subject and Verb (Reprise) - Greg

Act 2

1. Whom Cares? - Miriam, Web

2. Bring in Da Strunk, Bring in Da White - Greg, Lisa, Letter Writers

3. The Effect of Your Affect - Tim

4. Apostrophe Anarchy - Greg, Bojangle, Police Officer

5. The Right Space (Reprise) - Lisa, Miriam

6. The Angry Grammarian (Reprise) - Greg, Web, Lisa, Miriam

7. Preposition Proposition - Judge Sapphire, Web, Miriam, Greg, Lisa, Bojangle, Ensemble

The Angry Grammarian had its world premiere in March 2024 with Pier Players Theatre Company, performing at Philadelphia's Theatre Exile, where it sold out every performance. The cast featured Benjamin Behrend (Greg), Chelsea Cylinder (Lisa), Nina Vitek (Web), Erin Coffman (Miriam), Abrham Bogale (Tim/Ensemble/Web u/s), Madeline Snyder (Sapphire/Ensemble/Miriam u/s), Joshua Gold (Ensemble/Greg u/s) and Niamh Sherlock (Ensemble/Lisa u/s). The band included Byron Kho (piano), Tamara Kimler (bass), Sean McDermott (guitar) and Ari Miller (drums). The production/creative team included Chelsea Cylinder (producer), Dawn Loveland Navarro (director), Pat D'Amato (music director), Kate Brighter (assistant director/choreographer), Finn Warrick (stage manager), Sabrina Boyd-Surka (sound designer), Noah Lee (technical director), Julianne Kastner (digital marketing), Sam Goldwert (assistant stage manager/run crew), Joe Falcone (artistic associate) and Vanessa Torres (artistic associate). 

Following that sold-out run, Pier Players remounted the show at Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia in September 2024. The cast featured Benjamin Behrend (Greg), Chelsea Cylinder (Lisa), Nina Vitek (Web), Erin Coffman (Miriam), Abrham Bogale (Tim/Ensemble/Web u/s), Madeline Snyder (Sapphire/Ensemble/Miriam u/s), Jonathan V. Polanco (Ensemble/Greg u/s) and Niamh Sherlock (Ensemble/Lisa u/s). The band included Byron Kho (piano), Tamara Kimler (bass), Sean McDermott (guitar) and Ari Miller (drums). The production/creative team included Chelsea Cylinder (producer), Dawn Loveland Navarro (director), Pat D'Amato (music director), Kate Brighter (assistant director/choreographer), Finn Warrick (stage manager), Sabrina Boyd-Surka (sound designer), Noah Lee (technical director), Julianne Kastner (digital marketing), Johann Fitzpatrick (set designer), Sam Goldwert (assistant stage manager/run crew) and Vanessa Torres (artistic associate). 

The Angry Grammarian had two development workshops: The first, at Pulley & Buttonhole Theatre Company (Jenkintown, Pa.) in 2017, featured Jeff Berry (Greg), Sara Osi Scott (Lisa), Chaz Meyers (Web and others) and Meg Cranney (Miriam and others), and in the band, Jeffrey Barg, Cameron Stringham, Tamara Kimler and Wes Harris. Benjamin Kamine directed. The second, at Players Club of Swarthmore in 2018, featured Jeff Berry (Greg), Yanellie Pabon-Garcia (Lisa), Chaz Meyers (Web), Dana Corvino (Miriam), Jonathan V. Polanco (Mr. Hatch and others) and Vida Manalang (Judge Sapphire and others), and in the band, Jeffrey Barg, Cameron Stringham, Tamara Kimler and Ben Hemsley. Nick Anselmo directed. 

Jeffrey Barg (music and lyrics, original story) is a composer and performer from South Philadelphia. He has composed the music and lyrics for several musicals, including The Ballad of King Henry, a folk adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I, co-created with Benjamin Kamine and Sally Ollove. He started "The Angry Grammarian" as a newspaper column for Philadelphia Weekly in 2007, and published the column in The Philadelphia Inquirer from 2018 to 2024. Read it at theangrygrammarian.substack.com. 

David Lee White (book, original story) is a New Jersey-based playwright, performer and educator who has worked with Passage Theatre, McCarter Theater, Vivid Stage, PlayPenn, the Bucks County Playhouse and many other institutions. His plays include Fixed (a commission from the NJ Performing Arts Center) as well as Slippery as Sin and Ways to Be Happy (Next Stage Press). He has performed his solo show, Panther Hollow, at multiple venues including Off-Broadway at the United Solo Festival, Arcade Comedy Theatre in Pittsburgh and Passage Theatre. In addition to creating The Angry Grammarian with Jeffrey Barg, David has created the shows ALiEN8 (YouthPLAYS), and Clean Slate with Kate Brennan. He is currently working with writer Maribeth Theroux on the screenplay Jacqueline Remembers All of This, based on his play Blood: a Comedy. He is a MAP Fund recipient for his work on the OK Trenton Project at Passage Theatre as well as his work on Clean Slate. He and Kate Brennan were finalists for the Jonathan Larson Grant.

www.davidleewhite.net

www.brennanandwhite.com

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