Neil Bartram

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Neil Bartram is a composer/lyricist and the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Jonathan Larson Fellowship, a 2005 Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, and was a finalist for the 2007 Fred Ebb Award.

He wrote the music and lyrics for Somewhere In The World (which ran for 5 seasons at the Charlottetown Festival and spawned a cast album), and The Nightingale and the Rose. With book writer Brian Hill, Neil is currently developing Not Wanted On The Voyage (which is being workshopped as part of Northwestern University’s AMTP project under the direction of Amanda Dehnert) and Clara’s Piano (workshopped in July 2008 by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival with director and conceiver Susan H. Schulman).

Neil and Brian's musical The Story Of My Life was featured in the 2007 NAMT Festival of New Musicals. In addition, Neil has scored successful productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, and his songs have been recorded by several independent artists. Neil is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop.

He made his broadway debut in 2009 with The Story of My Life, directed by Richard Maltby Jr. And starring Will Chase and Malcolm Gets.

The Story of My Life earned four 2009 Drama Desk Award nominations: outstanding book, outstanding music, outstanding lyrics and outstanding production of a musical.

In 2010 Neil and Brian Hill were commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater to adapt Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio for their 2011 season.

Bartram and Hill's new musical called The Theory of Relativity was commissioned by Toronto's Sheridan College and is written specifically for college age students.

Bartram and Hill's musical Spin is part of the 2013 Signature Theatre season directed by Eric Schaeffer. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-04/entertainment/37433970_1_signature-theatre-new-musicals-revivals

External links

Official site: Bartram & Hill
Official site: The Story Of My Life
Broadway-Aimed Musical Story of My Life, With Gets and Chase, Makes U.S. Premiere in CT

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