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Sam Salmond

Sam Salmond
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Jonathan Larson Grants - 2016

SAM SALMOND is a Brooklyn-based composer, lyricist, and bookwriter. He’s currently writing music and lyrics for an adaptation of Eighty-Sixed, the novel by humorist and AIDS activist, David Feinberg. The show recently had a developmental reading at Second Stage Theatre. He’s the creator of Uncool: the Party, an immersive night of rock ‘n roll, games, stories, and dancing, which was workshopped at CAP21 and the Musical Theatre Factory. His musical Mother, Me and the Monsters was produced at Barrington Stage. He wrote book and lyrics for Cage Match, produced at Prospect Theater, and contributed songs to Shakina Nayfack’s One Woman Show and Post-Op, produced at Palo Alto Theatreworks and The Wild Project. Sam’s work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Symphony Space, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Two Rivers Theater and all around the country. He’s an alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

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