March 21, 2023 • 57 mins
Welcome back to The Nerd Expansion! Today's guest is the one and only Steven Silverstein and his nerd love is Bewitched. It's awesome.
Steven Silverstein has music directed and accompanied the famous and near famous on Broadway (Blood Brothers, Swinging on a Star, & the revival of Promises Promises); Off-Broadway, (When Pigs Fly, The Green Heart, & Annie Warbucks); Regional Theatre (Goodspeed Opera House, Papermill Playhouse, & Westport County Playhouse); and Specialty (54 Below & Noel Coward: The Women of His World at Lincoln Center with Dava Ivey, Dee Hoty & Cady Huffman).
He has coached and played piano for Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Harry Connick Jr., Carole King John Treacy Egan, Neva Small, Tony Award Winner Bill Irwin, and the Tony award winner Annaleigh Ashford. In addition to his vast experience as a musical director and coach, he has a MAC nomination (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) and has tickled the ivories for cabaret performances at 54 Below, The Duplex, and Don’t Tell Mama in NYC.
Steven is also a prolific published composer and arranger, having published two children’s shows (Enchorage Press) . His work was performed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. Steven's song Shoot Me (with Andrew Zachary Cohen) received an honorable mention from the City Center's Lobby Project
2022 highlights as composer: His musical Forever and A Day (with bookwriter lyricist Marcus Scott) was part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in June, His musical Nothin But Love (with Andrew Zachary Cohen) had an informal reading in July, Six of his songs (with Michael Colby) in OTHER LIVES were presented as part of Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages in December.
He shares his love and passion for music and musical theatre with students of all ages at American Music and Dramatic Academy. He also has been on the faculty of The Neighborhood Playhouse Junior School, Marymount Manhattan College, PACE University, SUNY Purchase and NYU. Steven’s students have appeared on Broadway in Annie, Newsies, The Producers, 30 Rock among others.
Steven holds a B.A. in Theatre/B.S. in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and an M.A. in Music Education.
Upcoming: 2023 Students at Western Connecticut State University will be doing a staged reading of his musical HOW RUDE (written with Phillip George of Forbidden Broadway).
Find Steven:
Youtube
Twitter
Facebook
Website
TikTok
Instragram
Check out Steven's podcast: "Stay Awake with Silverstein" and Making the News Sing
Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha Weiss
Theme song written by Korrie Yamaoka
Performed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka
Steven Silverstein has music directed and accompanied the famous and near famous on Broadway (Blood Brothers, Swinging on a Star, & the revival of Promises Promises); Off-Broadway, (When Pigs Fly, The Green Heart, & Annie Warbucks); Regional Theatre (Goodspeed Opera House, Papermill Playhouse, & Westport County Playhouse); and Specialty (54 Below & Noel Coward: The Women of His World at Lincoln Center with Dava Ivey, Dee Hoty & Cady Huffman).
He has coached and played piano for Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Harry Connick Jr., Carole King John Treacy Egan, Neva Small, Tony Award Winner Bill Irwin, and the Tony award winner Annaleigh Ashford. In addition to his vast experience as a musical director and coach, he has a MAC nomination (Manhattan Association of Cabarets) and has tickled the ivories for cabaret performances at 54 Below, The Duplex, and Don’t Tell Mama in NYC.
Steven is also a prolific published composer and arranger, having published two children’s shows (Enchorage Press) . His work was performed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. Steven's song Shoot Me (with Andrew Zachary Cohen) received an honorable mention from the City Center's Lobby Project
2022 highlights as composer: His musical Forever and A Day (with bookwriter lyricist Marcus Scott) was part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in June, His musical Nothin But Love (with Andrew Zachary Cohen) had an informal reading in July, Six of his songs (with Michael Colby) in OTHER LIVES were presented as part of Winter Rhythms at Urban Stages in December.
He shares his love and passion for music and musical theatre with students of all ages at American Music and Dramatic Academy. He also has been on the faculty of The Neighborhood Playhouse Junior School, Marymount Manhattan College, PACE University, SUNY Purchase and NYU. Steven’s students have appeared on Broadway in Annie, Newsies, The Producers, 30 Rock among others.
Steven holds a B.A. in Theatre/B.S. in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and an M.A. in Music Education.
Upcoming: 2023 Students at Western Connecticut State University will be doing a staged reading of his musical HOW RUDE (written with Phillip George of Forbidden Broadway).
Find Steven:
Youtube
Website
TikTok
Instragram
Check out Steven's podcast: "Stay Awake with Silverstein" and Making the News Sing
Hosted By: Nick Bowan & Sasha Weiss
Theme song written by Korrie Yamaoka
Performed by Sasha Weiss & Korrie Yamaoka
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