Adryan Russ

Adryan Russ (Composer/Lyricist) writes for theater, film, television and recordings. Her LML CD, Everyone Has A Story showcases her songs performed by David Burnham, Susan Egan, Jason Graae, Sharon McNight among others: http://www.lmlmusic.com/artist/adryanruss/. Her off-Broadway musical INSIDE OUT, co-written with Doug Haverty and published by Samuel French, has played across the country and in Europe (http://www.kritzerland.com/insideOut.htm). Her musicals include IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT, TWO LIVES, and LOVE & ORDER, written with Haverty, the last selected for the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles. In development is EBENEZER, RETURN OF THE SCROOGE, with playwright Keith Huff, selected for the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Chicago. iGHOST, inspired by Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" co-written with Haverty was was recently produced at The Lyric Theatre in Los Angeles.

Adryan participated in a tribute to Charles Strouse with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall, and at the Chicago Humanities Festival with Karen Mason and Jason Graae. She has collaborated with television and film composers, writing lyrics to their music -- most recently "Is It Me?" a song co-written with Joel Evans appeared in John Patrick Shanley's film version of his play DOUBT with Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. She also wrote the lyrics for "White Lies" for the film THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL, with Brian Dennehy and Ann Archer. Recently she and Evans released a CD of "new standards," CHANGING MY TUNE available at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joelevansandadryanruss

Every year, for the past ten years, Adryan has received an ASCAP Award for Popular Music, based on numerous cabaret and musical theater performances by cabaret artists and theaters for that year. She is a longtime member of ASCAP, The Dramatists Guild, the Academy for New Musical Theatre (ANMT), the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), and currently serves on the Board of the Society of Composers & Lyricists (www.TheSCL.com).

Additional credits include:
iGHOST
Composer
Co-Lyricist
The Lyric Theatre, Spring 2011

INSIDE OUT
Off-Broadway CD
Released on Kritzerland
with Jan Maxwell, Cass Morgan, Ann Crumb, Harriett D. Foy, Julie Prosser and Kathleen Mahony-Bennett