Erin Lee & Marci met while doing improvisational children's theater in 1999. They quickly became friends and began collaborating as performers and educators. They have since performed all around New York City for both adults and children alike, as a duo and as part of larger theater shows.
They spent a number of years co-teaching a theater program for elementary school students for whom much of their music was originally created. Realizing the need for songs both funny and thoughtful that reflected a child's everyday life, they began writing. The results are their debut CD Someone's Gotta Wanna Play which was awarded Best Recording for Younger Children, 2005 by the Children's Music Web, and Snowdance which was debuted on Rosie O'Donnell's R Family Cruise to Alaska and went on to win two ASCAP Awards for excellence in writing and the Family Choice Award. Erin Lee & Marci have both served on the Children’s Music Network Board of Directors.
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Marci Appelbaum
Marci has been working as an educator and entertainer for the past fifteen years. When she is not singing with Erin Lee she is teaching music and theater classes in New York and New Jersey's public, private and parochial schools.
Marci is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Attic Salt Theatre Company, a not-for-profit producer of family theater. She is also co-author of the books Folktale Plays from Around the World and Read-Aloud Plays: Colonial America, both published by Scholastic Press.
Marci is a registered Music Together teacher and member of the Actor's Equity Association (AEA) , the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
Erin Lee Kelly
Erin Lee began performing as a teenager in Kingston, Ontario, moving to New York to study at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Upon graduation she spent several years as an actress and choreographer, performing in musicals, plays, and films before choosing to focus on music and theatre for children. Erin Lee is a registered Music Together™ teacher teaching a developmental music program for very young children and their grown-ups, and an artist-in-residence in inner-city schools in the Bronx teaching songwriting and storytelling.
As half of the duo Storytime Stage, she performs original songs and stories throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. When not singing with Marci, she can frequently be found performing family rock concerts around NYC, fronting Erin Lee and the Up Past Bedtime Band.