Colleen McGrath is a late-in-life run-away from New York City who now finds herself in Germany, of all places. Like all good opera singers between gigs she is earning a living teaching small, drooling children to drum a beat on the floor and sing songs like "This Old Man". The weird thing is, she likes it. Ms. McGrath has written professionally about such interesting topics as PORON for a communications company and while she found it both interesting and fulfilling, (bald-faced lie), the call to a more creative style was stronger. She is happy to be flexing those muscles on The Nervous Breakdown.