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Breathe is available for licensing from MTI as of March 13, 2024
Dot and the Kangaroo JR is available for licensing from MTI as of March 7, 2024. Kate recently traveled to Australia to record the vocal guide tracks with a talented cast of young Australian performers and to celebrate the show’s release at Junior Theatre Festival Australia
Kate was invited to speak on a panel at the inaugural ASCAP Musical Theatre Festival, joining Daniel Mertzlufft and Abigail Barlow to discuss how social media opens up new possibilities for musical theatre creators
Kate contributed lyrics to Dylan Mulvaney’s Day 365 Live!, a fundraiser for The Trevor Project
“Start with a Bang,” performed by Funny Girl’s Julie Benko and The Broadway Sinfonietta, is now available to stream on platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music
Kate and Daniel Mertzlufft were one of six finalists for the 2022 Fred Ebb Award
Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Broadway Sinfonietta, featuring five of Kate’s songs, attracted a live audience of more than five thousand in addition to a livestream
Kate was a finalist for the 2022 Kleban Prize
For You, Paige: The TikTok Musical, the first musical commissioned by TikTok, premiered live on April 14 and has garnered more than 40 million views
Fashion Show was one of nine musicals selected for the 2021 Rhinebeck Writers Retreat
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical won the People’s Voice Social Television & Film Award at the 2021 Webbys and was nominated for a Drama League Award
“Burgess gets a real Broadway showstopper: an anthem called ‘Remember My Name,’ which the arranger Daniel Mertzlufft and the orchestrator Macy Schmidt have built from the kernel of Jacobsen’s ‘Ode to Remy’ into a classic Disney Act I finale in the brassy manner of Alan Menken. It even has a nifty Howard Ashman-style lyric (by Kate Leonard): ‘I won’t let a narrow-minded view/Determine/What vermin/Can do.’”
“‘I won’t let a narrow-minded view determine what vermin can do,’ Burgess sings, in the musical’s best number, Kate Leonard and Mertzlufft’s ‘Remember My Name.’”