Fairways
The Creative Team

Mary Hutchings Reed

Chicago attorney and novelist Mary Hutchings Reed conceived and wrote the new musical, Fairways, as a story about golf, honesty, and love.

Reed has published widely in the intellectual property area, and has won several awards for fiction, including First Prize in Pariah Publishing’s First Chapter contest and several semifinalist rankings in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom writing competitions. She has attended several prestigious writing conferences, including Breadloaf, and she is a student of Enid Powell in Chicago and Fred Shafer in Evanston. An avid golfer with a “middle handicap,” this is her first stage play.

Reed has been active in the Chicago arts scene, primarily through Lawyers for the Creative Arts, a group which provides pro bono services to artists and arts organizations. In 2004, she won the Thomas R. Leavens Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts. A February 2005 workshop of the musical at Steel Beam Theatre, and Powell’s current orchestration and scoring were underwritten in part by a Special Assistance Grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

Reed holds a law degree from Yale Law School, and is Of Counsel to the law firm of Winston & Strawn, where she practices trademark, copyright, entertainment, and advertising law. She also holds Masters and Bachelor degrees from Brown University. She is married to internist, Bill Reed.

“Golf is a spiritual exercise,” Reed says.“You really have to learn to play within yourself, to stay with the process rather than anticipate the results. I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of putting golf on stage—the theatre has that same ‘now-moment’ quality to it.”

Curt Powell

Curt Powell is an experienced theatrical composer for stage productions in New York and Iowa. A talented vocalist and instrumentalist, Fairways is his first full-length musical.

A February 2005 workshop of the musical at Steel Beam Theatre, and Powell’s current orchestration and scoring were underwritten in part by a Special Assistance Grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

Previously, Powell has served as Composer-In-Residence, Musical Director, Sound Designer, and Conductor for the Des Moines Playhouse/Kate Goldman Theatre, Des Moines, Iowa. In Chicago, he has served as worship musician for Second Unitarian Church. He has composed twenty-three original pieces and arranged more than fifty existing choral and instrumental works for worship.

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