Ryan Scott Oliver

about

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and wrote the music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award Winner, at Playwrights Horizons July 2009 starring Jane Krakowski, dir. by Michael Greif), Darling (Pace New Musicals 2009), 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 with a cast of including Broadway's Megan Hilty, Kate Shindle, Matt Cavenaugh, and more. His work has been heard 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. He is a 2007 Dramatists Guild Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including the first-ever ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing, the Margo Lion Award for Excellence in Adaptation (Mrs. Sharp, with Kirsten A. Guenther), the Looking Glass Theatre Favorite Production Award (Out of My Head) and the John Denver New Composers Award. Originally from Los Angeles, he is currently making music from New York City's West Village, developing 35mm, a multimedia musical exhibition based on photographs

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albums

35MM: A Musical Exhibition (Original Cast Recording)

Jasper In Deadland (World Premiere Recording)

Three Points of Contact

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Rope: Fibers

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Tomorrow, the Island Dies (Complete Studio Cast Recording)

Future Demons

Past Demons

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35MM: A Musical Exhibition in Focus

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Tomorrow, the Island Dies

Darling (Live in Concert)

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We Foxes: Tracks

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Otherbody: A Brief Musical Allegory

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