Ryan Scott Oliver

Show Description

On Monday, September 21st, multi award-winning composer and lyricist Ryan Scott Oliver will bring sexy schoolteachers, Bostonian rent-boys, obsessive homicidal teenagers, and fairy dust to Joe’s Pub, featuring a ridiculous talented Broadway cast singing their faces off to his wide-ranging work.

Ryan Scott Oliver is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and wrote the music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award Winner, formerly Alive at Ten), Darling (Pace New Musicals 2009), the song cycle Out of My Head, music for Angus Oblong's The Debbies and music and co-lyrics for the hit YouTube TV show The Battery's Down.  His work has been presented in showcases including the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Goodspeed Musicals, William Finn & Barrington Stages, The York Theatre, Monday Nights New Voices, the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles, and most recently The Ryan Scott Oliver Project conceived by Philly Music Theatre Works.  He is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and the recipient of numerous awards including the first-ever ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing.  Currently he is working on an untitled show for TheatreworksUSA which will open off-Broadway in 2010. B.A. Music Composition, UCLA; M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch, a proud member of A.S.C.A.P.

RATED RSO is directed by Travis Greisler and produced by Rob Shapiro and Alexander Rea.
 
Already set to appear are Alex Brightman (Wicked), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Jay Johnson (Hair), Natalie Weiss (Wicked), and Lindsay Mendez (Grease).  The rest of the cast will be announced shortly.

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