Christian Duhamel

Christian Duhamel is a nationally recognized playwright, lyricist, and composer. His newest musical, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, directed by Sean Daniels and starring Charissa Bertels, will receive its World Premiere at Merrimack Repertory Theatre this spring. He recently developed and presented a stage reading of a new one-act play, Reeling, after being selected for Exquisite Corpse Company’s Spring Playwriting Lab.

Mr. Duhamel’s first musical, Reinventing Romance, was originally produced at Wright State University and earned awards for music, lyrics, and playwriting from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The piece was also a finalist for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award and the National Playwriting Award. As the inaugural recipient of Music Theatre Ventures' Young Creator's Award, Christian wrote the original musical Worlds Apart, which subsequently received workshop productions with Auburn University and The Inverse Opera and a recent developmental reading through Piglet Enterprises.

Other current projects by Mr. Duhamel include Miss Mayor (Puzzle Theatre Festival Select, B-Side Productions’ New American Musical Award finalist), Mary Walker Wears What She Wants, and The Girl Who Turned Into a Feather. Mr. Duhamel’s songs have been presented in concert at The Neon, Martin’s Off Madison, 54 Below, New Voices, The Battersea Barge and the Duplex, and he has received commissions from theaters across the country, including Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company/Wooden-O, and The Human Race Theatre Company.

A native of Kellogg, Idaho and an alumnus of DePaul University and Wright State University, Mr. Duhamel currently resides in New York City where he is an active member of the Off Broadway Alliance, the Dramatists Guild of America and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.