Team — Jacques & Jill

Jarlath Barsanti Jacobs

Playwright · Lyricist · Librettist

Jarlath was an award-winning copywriter for top New York ad agencies, specializing in jingle lyrics, but she left it all behind for her true love — the theatre.

She has been in the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, the New School Musical Theater Workshop and Ken Davenport’s Inner Circle, and is currently an active member of TRU, Cate Cammerata’s Create Theater Workshop and the Dramatists Guild.

She has written Lunch at Audrey’s (an imagined day with Audrey Hepburn), as well as the musicals Jacques & Jill (formerly Fire Island) and Miracolo, with music by GRAMMY-winning composer Emilio Solla.

Emilio Solla

Composer · Pianist · Arranger

Latin GRAMMY® winner
6-time GRAMMY® nominee
15 albums as bandleader

Latin GRAMMY® winner and six-time GRAMMY® nominee Emilio Solla is widely recognized as a leading voice in Tango Jazz. With over fifteen albums as a bandleader and more than fifty recordings as an arranger and producer, he has performed at premier venues like Birdland, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Blue Note alongside collaborators including Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo O’Farrill, and Yo-Yo Ma.

His album Puertos won the 2020 Latin GRAMMY® Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. Solla’s recent projects include RITMO, a symphonic tribute to Chick Corea that earned three GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY® nominations, as well as two original musicals with lyricist Jarlath Barsanti Jacobs: Jacques & Jill and Miracolo.