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BENJAMIN SCHEUER
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY represented by Leah Hamos
BENJAMIN SCHEUER is the recipient of the 2014 Off West End Award for Best Musical, the 2013 ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award for songwriting, and the 2013 Musical Theatre Network Award for Best Lyrics. He is the writer/performer of the one-man musical THE LION. The show premiered off-Broadway in June 2014, and was called "the best new musical this year" by the Huffington Post, The Stage, and Playbill. The animated music video for Scheuer's song "The Lion" has won prizes at the Annecy Film Festival, The Crystal Palace Festival, and the British Animation Awards. (director/animator Peter Baynton) See Video With photographer Riya Lerner, Scheuer is co-creator of the book "Between Two Spaces." For details, and to purchase the book, (50% of proceeds from which go to the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society) visit www.BetweenTwoSpaces.com Scheuer has been a writer-in-residence at the Goodspeed Theatre, the Weston Playhouse, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Workshop. He records and performs with his band Escapist Papers, whose second album, "The Bridge," (produced by Geoff Kraly) was released in 2014, and features music from THE LION. Find the album on iTunes HERE. Scheuer is at work on an album called "Songs from THE LION." He lives in New York City .
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below is a list of Benjamin Scheuer's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
Bridge, The Jihad! the MusicalBridge, The
Synopsis:
One man and a guitar, and one amazing life story. By age 30, Benjamin Scheuer has experienced a lifetime of emotions. Scheuer takes us on a journey through his childhood and young adult years, his fathers death, romantic love and loss, and his diagnosis of, treatment for, and triumph over advanced stage cancer, all before age 30. A folk-musical told through song and stories. Blisteringly candid and deeply funny, the Bridge connects us all. From the writer of 2007 Fringe hit Jihad: the Musical, the Bridge was recorded as an album with Scheuers band, Escapist Papers.
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aka "The Lion"
1st Produced:
C Venues - C Nova, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Aug 2013
Organisations:
Benjamin Scheuer (New York)
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music, solo show 1 hour
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Synopsis:
We follow poor, innocent Sayid as he is seduced by an American TV journalist who wants to make her name by setting him up us a terrorist. Once in America, he is in fact duped by a group of terrorists and is convinced to join them in their mission, thus fulfilling the fictional role the journalist had planned for him.
- Rachel Sheridan , British theatre Guide
- Rachel Sheridan , British theatre Guide
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Book by Zoe Samuel; Lyrics by Zoe Samuel And Benjamin Scheuer; Music by Benjamin Scheuer. Full length production at Jermyn street theatre, london, '08 jan 2010
1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Aug 2007
Organisations:
Silk Circle Productions
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Genre:
Musical
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: doubling
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