About THE PRETTY PANTS BANDIT: Inspired by True Events
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From housewife to hero, Marie Baker, her gang, and one infamous pair of guns took the country for a year-long ride that would make headlines.
Notoriously leaving the men she robbed with their pants down, her evolution became a revolution. Amongst the sparkling and scintillating back drop of 1930s Miami, and with an unforgettable pop-rock score,THE PRETTY PANTS BANDIT will steal your inhibitions and your heart. |
A story of a woman leaving an abusive marriage to pursue a vigilante quest for vengeance quickly becomes something so much more. Set against the economic and racial disparity of this time in Miami, THE PRETTY PANTS BANDIT gives voice to the voiceless and empowers the powerless; shedding a light on very present issues through the vintage lens of the golden age of the American Gangster.
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THE WRITERS
Chase Peacock and Jessica De Maria are both New York based, actors, singers and writers who have written three musicals as a team since 2015. WHAT'S PAST, their first musical, has previously appeared in development at the Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival , with the Threshold Festival of New Plays at Actor's Express and as an invited reading at Serenbe Playhouse. Their musical ghost story, VIVIAN, premiered at The Lyric Studio in the Square in Marietta, GA October 11-14, 2017. Chase & Jessica have also composed original music for Theatre Buford's A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE in 2018.
CHASE PEACOCK is a New York City based singer, actor and composer. He’s been writing songs since the age of 13 for his various pop punk bands. From there, at 17, he wrote his first musical, You’re in High School, Charlie Brown. He had a brief stint working in writer’s rooms in Nashville where he co-wrote the song “Boomerang” as performed by Rachel Potter. Chase has a passion for developing new musicals and has had the opportunity to be a part of many as an actor. Most notably, he was in the original Broadway cast of Green Day’s American Idiot, as well as new works Bull Durham, The Nutty Professor, and most recently, Rock and Roll Man off-Broadway. Chase is currently writing music for the children’s series Avery and Masa: Protectors of the Endangered while performing off Broadway by night.
JESSICA DeMARIA is a New York City based performer and writer. Jessica's first co-written musical, THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE, appeared at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2015 and received a workshop production at Synchronicity Theatre in 2016. Her original arrangements of American folk music have appeared in productions of The Sleepy Hollow Experience all over the country and she was featured on the Spotify Original Podcast, "You Heard Me Write" during its inaugural season. Her most recent composition premiered in a new short film, The Name, NYC in April of 2023 and she was part of the music team for the upcoming Holiday Feature, Christmas with Jerks. Jessica currently has several new works in development including The Pretender, One More for the End of the World, and This Lollipop is Poison.
See more at www.jessicademaria.com
See more at www.jessicademaria.com
THE MUSIC
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THE CONCERT at 54 Below: Playbill
THE TEASER at Ripley Grier: Playbill
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THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION
THE PRESS
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"Chase & Jessica offer a fresh new voice in the musical theatre world with powerful storylines and exquisite melodies! A dynamic duo with a bright future ahead! They understand the power of collaboration, which creates an efficient and highly creative pre-production period!"-Ricardo Aponte, Choreographer/Director
“Jessica and Chase have a knack for writing incredibly melodic music and they also have such a penchant for interesting, unexpected stories. It is always a treat to see what new tricks they have up their sleeves.”-Freddie Ashley, Artistic Director, Actor's Express "Chase and Jessica, in seven years, have found all the aspects of what makes this play worthy of being noticed and off the charts!" |
"It's rare to find a writing/composing team that's capable of doing more than one aspect of musical theatre well. Chase Peacock and Jessica De Maria can do it all, and do it extremely well to boot. "-James Donadio, Associate Artistic Director of Georgia Ensemble Theatre
"The Pretty Pants Bandit is wholly original and highly energetic...This is an exciting venture."-ArtsAtl "Creators Chase Peacock and Jessica De Maria have written a show which is as sassy as it is sensually superb...The music is superb, eclectic, and thrilling, the cast stellar, and the book funny although intelligent and wickedly cheeky." |
Interviews with Chase & Jessica
VoyageATL 2019 City Lights with Lois Reitzes 2016 City Lights with Lois Reitzes 2020 BroadwayRadio Podcast 2022 City Lights with Lois Reitzes 2022 BroadwayRadio Podcast 2023 Media Contact
Ph: 631.561.8424 Email: [email protected] IG: @theprettypantsbanditmusical TikTok: @theprettypantsbandit www.chaseandjessica.com Production Photo credit: Casey Gardner Ford 54 Below Photo credit: Rissa La Villa |