Tim Rosser

Tim Rosser is a composer, freelance music director, and recipient of a 2015 Jonathan Larson Grant (with Charlie Sohne). Credits include: composer of several musicals with bookwriter/lyricist Charlie Sohne, “The Boy Who Danced on Air” (2014 NAMT Writers Residency, 2013 NAMT Festival of New Works, 2013 Rodgers Award Finalist, 2013 ART/NY and NYTB Workshop), “The Profit of Creation” (2011 Yale Institute for Musical Theater, one of ten finalists for the O’Neill Music Theater Conference 2011 and 2012, developed at The Lark and through ASCAP’s 2010 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Program) and the short musical Political Speeches (The Culture Project’s IMPACT Series). Tim is also the music director for the BC/EFA benefit BROADWAY BACKWARDS (at the Palace and Al Hirschfeld Theaters on Broadway), the associate music director for I AM HARVEY MILK at Avery Fischer Hall, has played keyboards for ROCKY and THE ADDAMS FAMILY on Broadway and CARRIE at the Lucille Lortel, and rehearsal piano for A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Walter Kerr and LITTLE ME in City Center's ENCORES! Series. Tim is an alumnus of Oberlin Conservatory, the advanced class of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theater Writing Workshop, the Civilians R&D group and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project at Northwestern University. He is a 2014-15 Dramatists Guild Fellow. His songs, with lyrics by Charlie Sohne, have been heard in their shows at Birdland and 54 Below, Contemporary Classics at Seattle Rep, Cutting Edge Composers 4 and 5 at Joe’s Pub and 54 Below, A Little New Music at Rockwell in Los Angeles, NYTB at the D-Lounge, NEXT's Emerging Composers Concerts, The Holiday Songbook at the Lincoln Center Library, and the Zipper Theater.