Daniel & Patrick Lazour
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We are songwriters. We contributed our original song “Prayer” to Songs of the Phoenix.
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We have been such fans of the SFGMC, and how rare in these times to celebrate rebirth & hope. This song poured out of us, I think, because we have been so starved of light for such a long time. Songs of the Phoenix was our opportunity to commune with the divine in uncertain times.
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We just hope the audience will feel its spirit, and then feel a spirit within themselves. We’re not talking religious, just life force
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The quality of work we are seeing from our peers, and the drive and dedication of these artists, it’s an amazing thing. At the end of the day, we are storytellers, and there is a moral imperative within the storyteller for the story to be told in whatever way possible. To see friends in the theater face a shutdown, then adjust and contort in all these myriad beautiful ways so they can still connect with the public. It’s unbelievably moving.
About Daniel & Patrick Lazour
They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Yaddo and MacDowell. Their new musical community project about cancer treatment, patients and caretakers was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and is being developed with the American Repertory Theater. Patrick and Daniel were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. Most recently, they were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo and are teaching artists at Lincoln Center Theater. They perform their songs live at the Boiler Room in New York City. @frereslazour