Bryan Putnam

A NYC-based Writer/ Composer/ Playwright, and proud member of ASCAP, Bryan's musical The ToyMaker selected for the 2012 National Theatre Conference at The O'Neill and enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at The Theatre @ St. Clements as an official selection of the New York Musical Theatre Festival's Next Link Project starring Rosena M. Hill (Ragtime, Spamalot, Come Fly Away, Oklahoma), Rob Richardson (Tale of Two Cities), Greg Stone (The Pirate Queen, Urban Cowboy, Oklahoma! and Les Miserables) and Jessica Burrows (Zhivago). Currently, Bryan is working on music & lyrics for BLUE VELVET the musical, which received its first worksop in November in Wilmington, NC as part of the Cucalorus Film Festival. Other accomplishments include an award-winning FringeNYC production of his musical Trouble in Shameland, starring Evita's Florence Lacey and a staged Reading of the aforementioned The ToyMaker at the York Theatre starring Christiane Noll, Zachary James, Justin Greer and Joan Barber and an amazingly talented cast. Both shows were finalists in the Richard Rodgers Award competition. More recently Bryan teamed up with orchestrator Josh Clayton for a DEMO recording of The ToyMaker. As a result the demo includes 5 fully orchestrated songs that can be sampled at www.thetoymakermusical.com. New works from upcoming shows Lullaby Street and Dust were premiered by invitation of The Metropolis Opera Project in 2010. Bryan also appeared in a Musical World podcast with Tony nominee Christiane Noll with The Encore Theatre Company. Earlier works include several plays, short stories, screenplays and the musical Mannekin, produced in Wilmington, NC in 1998. Upcoming works:Blue Velvet Lullaby Street, a musical / Dust, the musical and Jefferson’s Bible.