Neil Bartram
Neil Bartram is an award winning musical theatre composer/lyricist based in New York.
Neil is the composer and lyricist of Broadway’s The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill (four Drama Desk Award nominations including two for Neil – Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics). Prior to Broadway, The Story of My Life played at Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre. Neil has also written music and lyrics for Clara’s Piano (Stratford Festival), Somewhere in the World (five seasons at the Charlottetown Festival) and The Nightingale and the Rose, and scored productions of Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio was commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater for their 2011 season. Neil and Brian’s musical Not Wanted On The Voyage received a developmental production at Northwestern University’s Barber Theatre as part of the American Music Theatre Project and was part of Goodspeed Musicals’ 2012 New Works Festival. His musical The Theory of Relativity, commissioned by Toronto’s Sheridan College and written specifically for and about college age students, was part of Goodspeed’s 2014 New Works Festival and had its London, UK premiere in May 2014. Current projects include Spin directed by Eric Schaeffer (premiered at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA), an adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs, a musical based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and the stage adaptation of Disney’s beloved film Bedknobs & Broomsticks, all with book writer Brian Hill. Neil’s awards include a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and a Dora Award. Cast albums include Somewhere in the World and The Story of My Life (PS Classics). Neil is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop. Neil is published by Warner / Chappell Music. (citation bartramandhill.com)
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. The Story of My Life is Licensed through Music Theatre International. http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000365
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. The Adventures of Pinocchio is licensed through the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. http://www.rnh.com/show/355/The-Adventures-of-Pinocchio
Bartram and Hill's new musical 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
Brian Hill and Neil Bartram's The Theory of Relativity plays Goodspeed Musical's Norma Terris Theatre in May 2015. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/casting-announced-for-goodspeeds-theory-of-relativity-new-musical-from-story-of-my-life-writers-345728
Other current projects by Neil Bartram are stage adaptations of Something Wicked This Way Comes and Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
External links
- Official site: Bartram & Hill
- Broadway-Aimed Musical Story of My Life, With Gets and Chase, Makes U.S. Premiere in CT