Rosemary Novellino-Mearns

Rosemary Novellino-Mearns Author, Lyricist, Playwright & Retired Dancer Rosemary's career started in Radio City Music Hall's Ballet Company where she danced for 12 years and became the Dance Captain. Author of the book Saving Radio City Music Hall : A Dancer's True Story, she reveals her amazing David and Goliath battle as President of The Showpeople's Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall, to save that magnificent Art Deco theater. After leaving the Music Hall, she worked with Broadway choreographer/ director Tony Tanner at Westbury Music Fair and her final professional dancing was in the National Touring Company of Michael Bennett's "Ballroom" where she was a featured dancer in the role of Marie. Since retiring from the dance world as she has become a lyricist with her composer husband William Mearns who she met On The Great Stage at Radio City Music Hall where he was a soloist singer. Jointly they have written the score for "Ebenezer" based on "A Christmas Carol," "A Patch of Life," based on "Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch," and "The Haunted Bookshop." Rosie also has a Blog page: "Read What Rosie Wrote" featuring some of her published Non Fiction Short Stories.