On December 3, 2018 Ghost Road presented workshops of two new musicals base don the life of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, sponsored and funded by the Adam Mickiwicz Institute in Warsaw and in association with the UCLA Department of Theatre. The first was Jeremy Kemp and Chopper Jakob’s Thirteenth Point and the second was Paderewski in America, book by Katharine Noon and Mark Seldis, Lyrics by Katharine Noon and David O and music by David O.  The piece was directed by Mark Seldis with Musical Direction by Brenda Varda.

Paderewski in America featured:

Matthew Patrick David (Paderewski), Constance Jewel Lopez (Mama Lou), Benai Boyd (Modjeska/Mother/Denizen), Elizabeth Curtin (Antonia/Denizen), Eric B. Anthony (Wilson/Denizen), Lauren Han (Columbia/Denizen), Maxwell Havas (Critic/Denizen) and Ray Ford (Stage Directions).

Stage Managed by Julia Zayas-Melendez.