Bio

For more than a decade, R.C. Staab has concentrated his writing in the theater as a playwright, bookwriter, librettist and lyricist.  His current show, "Zombie Wedding," is one of the Top Picks of the 2011 New York International Fringe Festival with more good reviews and more than a dozen call-outs from the NY Daily News, Village Voice, Theatremania.com, Playbill.com, MSN.com and WCBS Radio. 

In 2009, two of his musicals received fully-staged, Equity-approved workshop productions in collaboration with leading musical theater companies in the Bay Area. Directed by Bay Area veteran musical theater director Dianna Shuster, Shadows of Pompeii (www.pompeiimusical.com) was produced in collaboration with 42nd Street Moon Theatre at the Eureka Theatre as a non-subscription part of Moon’s 2008-09 season. Earlier in 2009, Fountain of Youth, (www.fountainofyouthmusical.com) had a fully-staged Equity-approved workshop production in San Jose in collaboration with American Musical Theatre of San Jose and directed by Mike Ward, who has been involved in the development of new musical theater projects by George Furth and other Broadway composer.

As part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, Staab’s musical, RM3, premiered.  It featured songs by noted pop composer Ben Folds. A year earlier, his full-length comedy, A Union of San Franciscans, was produced at the Phoenix Theatre. Through ASCAP’s Collaborator Corner, Staab’s first effort at writing musicals, The Lulus,  was done electronically in 2001-2002 with a lyricist in Detroit and a composer in New York. He has written several short theater pieces and is a regular contributor at a theater and screenwriting group in the Bay Area.

In addition to writing, Staab has been involved in theatre as an actor and has served on the Board of American Musical Theatre of San Jose and marketing committees for Playmakers Repertory Theatre in North Carolina and American Musical Theatre Festival in Philadelphia.

He is a Professional Writing Associate of Mercury Musical Developments, Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Resources Unlimited and a former member of Theatre Bay Area.