Meet the team

Marie Incontrera is a musical theatre and opera composer; music director and conductor; and screenwriter living in Manhattan, New York. Her award-winning chamber opera, Albert: Bound or Unbound, written with librettist Royce Vavrek, premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music New Wave Festival and was hailed by the New York Times for its “deftly woven jazz and gospel elements.” Her operatic works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, and across the United States.

Marie has served as a music director and pianist for three works with Mabou Mines, in collaboration with late director Lee Breuer. She has also music directed several other opera, musical theater, and hybrid works, including Fred Ho’s Sweet Science Suite, Marat Sade with the TWEED Theatre Company featuring Edgar Oliver, Hatuey at Sundance Labs, and 8 Songs for a Drag Queen at Carnegie Hall. 

Marie’s screen works include Two Anxious Bisexuals, and A Very Queer Holiday, a holiday special. Both were written with Dianne Gebauer and Megan A Zebrowski. Two Anxious Bisexuals has been a winner of Best Short Script at Film Invasion LA, Audience Choice at Cannes Short Film Festival, and others. A Very Queer Holiday was a winner at LGBTQ Unvordered International Film Festival, Vienna Film Festival, and others. 

Marie is a graduate of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Intensive, taught by Patrick Cook and Frederick Freyer. Her first collaboration with Dorie Clark, Absolute Zero, was a part of the Apples and Oranges THEatre ACCELERATOR development intensive in Spring 2021. Dorie and Marie were commissioned by the Prospect Theater Lab for the first ten-minutes of their second show, 23 and You and You and Me, which premiered in November 2021 at Symphony Space. Her Virtual Reality musical, Parallel University, written with David Quang Pham and Malina Detcheva-Rossa, was developed with the Across A Crowded Room program at Lincoln Center Library. She received her Masters Degree in Music Composition from Brooklyn College, where she studied with Tania Leon. 

Megan A. Zebrowski grew up in several places between Pennsylvania and New York State in the US. She earned her associates degree in TV production at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY. Then earned her bachelors in TV and Film Production when she moved to Southern California. After living several years in the Kanto region of Japan, she moved to New York City. She has worked as a video editor on projects including corporate videos, documentaries and short films.

Dianne Gebauer (she/her) is a writer and editor based in New York City. Originally from Buffalo, NY, she earned her Master's Degree in Musicology at King's College London in 2015, before switching career paths. After taking stand-up classes at the Manhattan Comedy School, she began co-hosting the "Sorry, Just Saw This" podcast with comedian Emi Dammers in 2018. In addition to co-writing the pilot for "Two Anxious Bisexuals" with Marie Incontrera and Megan Zebrowski in 2020 (as well as co-writing, co-producing, and serving as script supervisor on the 20-minute short version in 2021), the trio's Zoom-shot mini-series, "A Very Queer Holiday," premiered on Amazon Prime in December 2020 through Throuple Or Nothing Productions. Dianne and her songwriting partner, Clyde de Guzman, are currently gearing up to release their first EP, "Like I Mean It," under their band name, The Roaring Whisper, in November 2021.