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About James Harvey
James Harvey is a composer, pianist, music director, and music teacher.
Harvey is an up-and-coming musical theatre composer whose work blends the tragic, the absurd, the comic and the heartwarming in a melodic contemporary package. A graduate of NYU Steinhardt's music theory and composition program, James was hand picked by composer Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, Newsies) for a prestigious scholarship based on his exciting work and the promise of work to come, and he has delivered with music that has been described as "lively and clever" (New Jersey Monthly).
James is the author of The Crack in the Ceiling, a dark musical comedy about a single mother who discovers a crack in her kitchen ceiling, that won't disappear no matter what she does. The musical premiered at the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival and will be performed at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival.
Other projects in the works include the official musical adaptation of the 2012 documentary, The Queen of Versailles, which chronicles David Siegel, owner and CEO of Westgate Resorts, whose extravagant lifestyle is compromised in the financial crisis of 2008. James is also the author of Dream Job, a ten minute musical presented at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.
James is a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild. His work has been seen at such New York venues as 54 Below, The Beechman Theatre, The Duplex and The Triad. James is an experienced pianist and singer and has been known to dabble as an actor and a musical comedian.
For more information about James you can visit his Website here.