Drew Gasparini

Teaches at Actors Connection New York

Drew Gasparini is an award winning musical theatre composer/lyricist and a performing singer/songwriter. Winner of the 2006 John Lennon Songwriter's award, he has shared the stage with such acts as Jason Mraz, Third Eye Blind, and The Plain White T's. He has written the music and lyrics for his musicals Crazy, Just Like Me (winner of "Best Of Fest" and runner up for "Best Book" in the New York Musical Theatre Festival 2011), Make Me Bad (winner of PACE new musicals; book by Alex Brightman), Turn Of The Screw (commission by Fordham University, 2012 workshop at Lincoln Center; book by Michael Kimmel), and #UntitledPopMusical (book by Michael Kimmel) to name a few. Drew was a contributing composer to the television series SMASH (season 2) on NBC- he can also be seen and heard on Oxygen's The Next Big Thing for which he also wrote music. Drew was named one of Playbill's "Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriter's You Should Know" and has contributed songs to the popular one-woman, Off-Broadway show, "Hot Mess In Manhattan." His work has been heard at Contemporary Classics New Voices in Seattle, Cutting-Edge Composers III (NYMF 2012), many sold out Joe's Pubs concerts.