Proud members of ASCAP, AEA, and the Dramatists Guild, Steve & Karen Multer have licensed their songs for television and film (HBO, CBS, ABC, MGM) since 2004. Awards have included two wins in the Billboard World Song Contest, three wins in the Great American Song Contest, radio airplay in over 150 jazz and adult contemporary markets around the world, inclusion on numerous compilation disc releases by SONY/BMG, and they are seven-time recipients of the ASCAPlus Award. Two full-length original studio albums with their vocal jazz quartet, Tonic, were hailed by the likes of Variety, Jazz Review, AMG, Cy Coleman, and Alan & Marilyn Bergman.
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After two decades of onstage work in musicals, the team of Multer & Multer have recently completed writing their first show, CODE NAME: CYNTHIA, a WWII spy musical based on the real life of an American seductress working for Churchill’s BSC. Work began in 2010, selections have been featured in two ASCAP/Chicago Dramatists Cabarets of New Musical Theatre Works, and in September 2011 the team of Multer & Multer were selected as Dramatist Guild Fellows for the Chicago Writer’s Intensive at Northwestern University led by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, and Stephen Schwartz.
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Karen & Steve consider themselves part of a larger and deeply vital writing community dedicated to producing quality new works that grow the lexicon of the classic American Musical. Their next show is scheduled for first-draft completion in late 2012.