DOUG SILVER is a composer/lyricist, vocal coach, arranger, pianist, music director and music teacher from New York City. Full-length works as composer: Sidd (Off-Broadway, 2006) and The Greenwich Village Follies, to open in May 2009, both with co-creator Andrew Frank. Doug has had a long time association with Manhattan Theatre Source and has had work featured in several of their Estrogenius and Spontaneous Combustion festivals; he has also had music showcased at Don’t Tell Mama’s, the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theater Workshop, Clear Space Productions, Raw Impressions Music Theater, Kinesis Dance Company, Manhattan Comedy Collective, Any Minute Now, Ripple Productions, and at the Roxy in Los Angeles to which he contributed the title song for the ongoing “Happy Shop” burlesque. He arranges and music-directs for multiple cabaret artists and mounts yearly showcases for his vocal students, as well as conducting an annual month-long Vocal Harmonies Workshop in Manhattan. Other music director credits include Max and The Truffle Pig (2008 NYMF festival), and Sisters of Swing and Romance/Romance at Bristol Valley Theater, as well as many readings and workshops in and around NYC. He is on the faculty of the Nightingale-Bamford School, teaching piano and song-writing, and does arranging, conducting, and music directing at Clarkstown High School North in New City, NY. Doug is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and is developing several new musicals with collaborators met there. Doug holds degrees in Music and Theater from Lehigh University and a Masters in Dramatic Literature (Shakespeare concentration) from Illinois State University. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed (non-musical) adaptations Macbeth, a Walking Shadow and Measure For Measure, Provide Your Block and Axe. Doug spent 1997-2001 as an adjunct professor in the English department at the University of Arizona in Tucson while also writing, recording and performing with the noted southwestern blues singer Anna Warr and with his own band “Wheelhouse.” Doug is currently in residence at Theater Row Studios, 410 W. 42nd St. where he gives private lessons in piano, guitar, and music theory & composition.

photo by Mark Adamsbaum