ABOUT

WILL REYNOLDS is a writer, performer, teaching artist, and the recipient of the Fred Ebb Award for musical theater writing with collaborator Eric Price.

Will and Eric’s musicals include THE VIOLET HOUR (based on the play by Richard Greenberg), RADIOACTIVE, AROUND THE WORLD, and THE SIXTH BOROUGH. You can hear their songwriting on Season Two of CENTRAL PARK on Apple TV+, as well on the album ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE where their song “When I See You Again” is sung by Laura Osnes.

His song cycle POEMS & MOON SONGS has been produced as part of the Lincoln Center Songbook Series, and the song “Tavern” (text by Edna St. Vincent Millay) was featured on 6-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald’s album GO BACK HOME. Will is the composer/creator of THE GREENWOOD TREE (based on the Sonnets by Shakespeare), with the song “Sigh No More, Ladies” featured on Nikki Renèe Daniels’ debut album, HOME. His short musical THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING was a commission by Marymount Manhattan. Development opportunities include the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, Goodspeed Writer’s Colony, The Musical Theater Factory, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project.

Acting credits include: EMMA (www.streamingmusicals.com), DADDY LONG LEGS (Off Broadway, directed by John Caird), PASSION at Classic Stage Company (directed by John Doyle, cast album on PS Classics), Tony Kushner’s THE ILLUSION (Signature Theater, directed by Michael Mayer), EMMA at the Old Globe, LOVE STORY at the Walnut Street Theatre, BIG RIVER at Goodspeed, A ROOM WITH A VIEW at Seattle’s Fifth Avenue, and the North American Tour of MAMMA MIA! Film: EMMA (streamingmusicals.com), THE GOOD SHEPHERD (directed by Robert De Niro.)

Will is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, has been on faculty at Pace University, CAP21/Molloy College, Hussian College, MTCA (Musical Theatre College Auditions), and is co-founder of the musical theater educational online learning platform This MT Space.