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Sam Salmond
Sam is a Jonathon Larson Award- winning composer, lyricist, and bookwriter. Among the projects currently in development, Sam is writing music and lyrics for an adaptation of Eighty-Sixed, the novel written by humorist and AIDS activist, David Feinberg. It had a developmental reading at Second Stage Theatre and a workshop with Playwrights Horizons and Musical Theatre Factory. His musical Mother, Me and the Monsters (a Boston Globe Critics Pick) was produced at Barrington Stage. His childrens show, The Dot, is on a 2017-18 national tour with Theatreworks USA. He wrote book and lyrics for Cage Match, which premiered at Prospect Theater Company. Hes the creator of Uncool: the Party, an immersive night of rock 'n roll, games, stories and dancing, which was workshopped at CAP21 and the Musical Theatre Factory. Sam is currently working on an original musical, The Homefront, about female factory workers who were fired at the end of WWII. Hes also writing a modern musical queer adaptation of the Frankenstein myth. Sams work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Ars Nova, Symphony Space, Joe's Pub, 54 Below, The Town Hall and venues all around the country. He is a 2017 Dramatists Guild Fellow and an alumnus of NYUs Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.