My right arm is stretched up to the top bunk to hold my daughter's hand, whilst my left boob is splayed out on the mattress, being snuggled by my son. Simultaneously and dissonantly, they call out "Mamaa.” My daughter comes up with a solution: "Mama, can you clone yourself and give the real you to me, and give the clone to (her little brother)?" Tonight I am putting my 6 year old daughter and 3 year old son to bed in their hand-me-down bunk beds in Brooklyn. She co-wrote the songs “Charlie #3” and “Blow Up the Pokies” with Tim Freedman (The Whitlams). Suess Toniebox characters and a musical adaptation of Shaun Tan’s ‘The Red Tree’. Her current projects include a musical adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ with Hilary Bell, an original musical with TONY Award-winning artist, Stew (‘Passing Strange’), a children’s musical based on Bell/ Pesenti’s best-selling picture book ‘Alphabetical Sydney’ (Critical Stages), ‘Triplight’ a rock musical with Melbourne playwright/ author Ally Collier, the songs and score for a variety of Dr. Greta Gertler Gold is a composer-lyricist and performer, and a dual citizen who splits her time between NYC and Australia.
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