Neil Klein (he/she) is a composer, instrumentalist, and writer. He started as a classical pianist before quickly discovering his passion for musical theater-- which took his theatrical nature, musical inclination, and joyfully put them together. Neil started writing plays and musicals when he was in High School.
In 2020, Neil began studying for his BM in Composition at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He studied under amazing musicians such as Jonathan Bailey Holland, Eun Young Lee, Timothy McCormack, and more. He composed classical music such as Art Songs (Letters From Oscar to Bosie; Tiny House) Chamber Music (Glass Clocks, Rotten Wood, and other Antiques; What is the Matrix?) and learned important orchestration skills he would use for arranging musical theater pieces.
Neil withdrew from the BoCo program in 2022 to pursue writing for musical theater full-time. He moved to New York City in August 2022 and immediately started working for Smith Street Stage where she was the composer and music director for their feminist Measure for Measure.
His musical, Archie’s Weird Parody played a sold out one night only performance at Don’t Tell Mama NYC in November 2022.
After that success, Neil founded KLEIN MUSICALS, LLC. He is the Founding Artistic Director.
Archie’s Weird Parody went on to perform a three week run Off-Broadway at Theatre Row. Klein Musicals, LLC was the main producer. Neil took on a wide variety of jobs at first. He hired and trained a Production Manager, drafted contracts, invited actors back, was the musical director, and played piano/conducted in every performance.
Neil is also the creator of new folk musical, In My Head I’m 21. This show follows a trans teen who is visited by a group of celestials offering him the gift of prophecy in exchange for saving the world from the Y2K crisis. Through the show, he realizes his visions are not prophetic but instead aspirational, and that his future is in his own hands. The show presents transness as its own kind of prophetic magic.
Neil also has written Playing Dead, which ran at Berklee College of Music in April 2023. Playing Dead is about faking your death: the classiest escape around.
Alongside Avery L. Ingvarson, Neil is developing Isabella of Boston, a musical based on the life and legacy of Isabella Stewart Gardner. The show reminds us that legacy can be created, yet it can just as easily be taken away. Like paintings cut out of their frames, casting shadows over a life well lived, memory is left up to the beholder.
For more information on Avery and Neil's creative partnership visit ingvarsonandklein.com
The FTM Book Club is a play by Neil Klein about queer masculinity, contradicting trans identities, self doubt, and has enough book references to please and English Lit professor.
With all the hats that Neil wears, his consistent goal is to create theater that is revolutionary. Neil is extremely deliberate in making sure marginalized communities feel represented and safe in the spaces she creates. Neil is openly trans.
Neil believes wholeheartedly in the weird art.
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