RYAN SCOTT OLIVER is a New York City-based composer-lyricist currently at work on the score for Disney Theatricals’ Freaky Friday (directed by Christopher Ashley and with a book by Friday Night Lights and Parenthood Producer/Writer Bridget Carpenter), slated for development at the La Jolla Playhouse in Spring 2012, as well as 35mm based on the work of photographer Matthew Murphy, directed by Daisy Prince (The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World); Jasper in Deadland (commissioned by the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program); and The Frog Prince, Cont. (commissioned by Chicago’s Emerald City Theatre).
He is a 2011 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee, a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and wrote the music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award Winner, at Playwrights Horizons starring Jane Krakowski, dir. by Michael Greif), Darling (featured on the “Bound for Broadway” episode of NBC’s The Apprentice), the song cycle Out of My Head, Quit India (commissioned by UCLA), and the music for Angus Oblong’s The Debbies.
A collection of his work, Rated RSO, has been seen across the country, playing the Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, New York Musical Theatre Festival among others, and his work has also been heard Off-Broadway in TheatreWorksUSA’s We the People (Summer 2010 at the Lucille Lortel), on the hit YouTube TV show The Battery’s Down (“This is Your Life” among others) and in showcases presented by Summer Play Festival (SPF), The York Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, William Finn & Barrington Stages, New York Theatre Barn, Monday Nights New Voices, and the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles.
In 2011, he published his first songbook, Music+Lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver: Vol. I, with 20 of his most popular songs, including “Lost Boy,” “The Ballad of Sara Berry” and “On Monday.” It’s available on Amazon.com, his website, and Colony Music in New York City.
B.A. Music Composition, UCLA; M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch, a proud member of A.S.C.A.P.; Ryan is an adjunct professor at Pace University in New York, a voice instructor at Front-n-Center Performing Arts Center in New Jersey, and Artistic Director of the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program in California, where he also teaches Songwriting, Playwriting, and Musical Theatre History.
He is represented by Jessica Amato at The Gersh Agency.
