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APR 2, 2021 – New TV pilot reading!
Through this crazy year of lockdowns and much-needed national conversations over democracy and racial injustice, I have developed a pilot for a TV series called "The Movement," about a Black political operative who embarks on a quest to shift the balance of power in...
“Mace at the Revolution” – my Capitol Rioter song w/10K YouTube views
My musical parody of Elizabeth of Knoxville, captured in a tearful post-Capitol-storming vid, gets 10K views on YouTube! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztm-7iKsZDg And the original vid of our, um, heroine:...
MAY 20, 2020 – New piece! NO CROSSING, a short Zoom musical
In this time of isolation, I stumbled across a beautiful story in the NYT about a European couple, separated by a national border, who visit each other every day at that border -- staying dutifully six feet apart. I wrote this 15-minute musical, inspired by the...
Ars Musica Chorale premieres “Welcome”
The Ars Musica Chorale of New Jersey, under the direction of Brian Mummert, premieres my brand new song "Welcome," a tribute to the Statue of Liberty, inspired by the Statue and by the Emma Lazarus sonnet celebrating her, "The New Colossus." The song is from the...
CLOWN BAR opens at Elon University
Adam Szymkowicz's hilarious play, for which I wrote several songs, runs for a week at Elon University. I love seeing this show get revived all over the country! Get the deets.
WE THE PEOPLE goes back on tour!
This longtime mainstay of TheaterWorksUSA (currently represented on Broadway with THE LIGHTNING THIEF) is going back out on the road. My song "The First Amendment" — a fast and wordy patter song about the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment — is part of...
Second Stage musical reading w/Kristen Chenoweth
Had a blast going back to my acting roots, working with the Tony-winning star of WICKED and YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, not to mention dozens of other triumphs, on a new musical written by my besties Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair (co-creators of the marvelous...
THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO concludes its limited run
THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO world premiere plays its final performance at the CLO Cabaret in Pittsburgh, PA. So much love and gratitude to the incredible artists who brought this show to life! Can't wait for its next run!
APR 10-13, 2019 – PCLO Writers Residency and Spark New Musicals Weekend
I'm back in Pittsburgh for a few days to work on some of my own new projects, as well as to see the terrific line up of new small-cast musicals that Pittsburgh CLO is developing, in the same festival that THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO was staged in last year. Meanwhile, THE...
APR 2, 2021 – New TV pilot reading!
Through this crazy year of lockdowns and much-needed national conversations over democracy and racial injustice, I have developed a pilot for a TV series called "The Movement," about a Black political operative who embarks on a quest to shift the balance of power in...
“Mace at the Revolution” – my Capitol Rioter song w/10K YouTube views
My musical parody of Elizabeth of Knoxville, captured in a tearful post-Capitol-storming vid, gets 10K views on YouTube! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztm-7iKsZDg And the original vid of our, um, heroine:...
MAY 20, 2020 – New piece! NO CROSSING, a short Zoom musical
In this time of isolation, I stumbled across a beautiful story in the NYT about a European couple, separated by a national border, who visit each other every day at that border -- staying dutifully six feet apart. I wrote this 15-minute musical, inspired by the...
Ars Musica Chorale premieres “Welcome”
The Ars Musica Chorale of New Jersey, under the direction of Brian Mummert, premieres my brand new song "Welcome," a tribute to the Statue of Liberty, inspired by the Statue and by the Emma Lazarus sonnet celebrating her, "The New Colossus." The song is from the...
CLOWN BAR opens at Elon University
Adam Szymkowicz's hilarious play, for which I wrote several songs, runs for a week at Elon University. I love seeing this show get revived all over the country! Get the deets.
WE THE PEOPLE goes back on tour!
This longtime mainstay of TheaterWorksUSA (currently represented on Broadway with THE LIGHTNING THIEF) is going back out on the road. My song "The First Amendment" — a fast and wordy patter song about the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment — is part of...
Second Stage musical reading w/Kristen Chenoweth
Had a blast going back to my acting roots, working with the Tony-winning star of WICKED and YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, not to mention dozens of other triumphs, on a new musical written by my besties Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair (co-creators of the marvelous...
THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO concludes its limited run
THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO world premiere plays its final performance at the CLO Cabaret in Pittsburgh, PA. So much love and gratitude to the incredible artists who brought this show to life! Can't wait for its next run!
APR 10-13, 2019 – PCLO Writers Residency and Spark New Musicals Weekend
I'm back in Pittsburgh for a few days to work on some of my own new projects, as well as to see the terrific line up of new small-cast musicals that Pittsburgh CLO is developing, in the same festival that THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO was staged in last year. Meanwhile, THE...
FEB 21, 2019 – THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO world premiere at Pittsburgh CLO!
THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO opens at Pittsburgh CLO's Greer Cabaret Theater, directed by Scott Weinstein with an incredible Pittsburgh cast and team! Check out more details and tickets at www.pittsburghclo.org, and at my Instagram @adamoverett!