Works written by Adam Overett
MY LIFE IS A MUSICAL
POPESICAL
THE DOUBLE-THREAT TRIO
CHANNING/TATUM
Synopses:
My Life is a Musical – A high-concept musical comedy about Parker, an accountant who loathes musicals and has hidden a lifelong secret: His own life is a musical that no one else can see or hear. When he starts giving the songs from his life to the frontman of a struggling rock band and the band becomes a national sensation, it sets in motion a Cyrano-style love triangle that threatens to finally expose his secret. A romantic comedy about what it means to know yourself and to let yourself be known, wrapped in a contemporary pop-theater score.
Popesical – Eight wildly unlikely cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to compete in top-secret Papal Challenges to become the Pope. For whom will the white smoke rise? A satirical musical comedy that blends ecclesiastical absurdity with real emotional stakes as the characters confront faith, ambition, and destiny.
The Double-Threat Trio – An actor who can’t dance, a dancer who can’t sing, and a singer who can’t act team up to become the triple threat they can’t be on their own, and off they fumble toward their opening night on Broadway. A story about teamwork, resilience, and daring in pursuit of dreams.
Channing/Tatum – Hollywood hunk Channing Tatum has one night to learn “how to Broadway” in order to rescue his career. He is guided by the ghost of Carol Channing, who needs a “true Broadway star” to release her from eternal captivity in the St. James Theater. A camp-forward musical buddy comedy that mixes Hollywood satire with Broadway mythology.
Bio:
Adam Overett is a musical theater writer and performer living in New York City.
As a composer/lyricist/librettist, he is the creator of My Life Is A Musical (Bay Street Theatre world premiere, lauded as “inspired” by the New York Times); The Double-Threat Trio (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera world premiere); Popesical (NYC Fringe Festival, Overall Excellence Award winner); Call It Courage (based on the Newbery Medal-winning book by Armstrong Sperry, Zachary Scott Theatre youth premiere in Austin, TX; five B. Iden Payne Award nominations, including Outstanding Original Script and Outstanding Production of Youth Theatre); Channing/Tatum, currently in development with director Tye Blue (winner of Lortel and Olivier Awards for Titanique) and star Nina West (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”); and many other works.
Adam has been a Musical Theater Fellow at the Dramatists Guild, a Lucille Lortel Award nominee for his contribution to the score of the Off-Broadway musical We The People, a two-time finalist for the Fred Ebb Award, and a two-time Harrington Award winner as a member of both the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Workshop and Librettists Workshop. He has also been a resident writer at the Goodspeed Mercer Colony and CAP21. His song “My Sky,” performed by Tony-winner Stephanie J. Block and orchestrated by Tony-winner Bruce Coughlin, is featured on the album No More Revivals, released by Sh-K-Boom Records. He also contributed music and additional lyrics to the off-Broadway hit Clown Bar (The Box, NYC) by Adam Szymkowicz, and with Aron Accurso co-authored the five-movement choral oratorio “The Trail,” commissioned by the Colorado Children’s Chorale.
As an actor, Adam has appeared on Broadway and on national tour in The Light in the Piazza, understudying and performing the role of Fabrizio. He played Neil Kellerman in the national tour of Dirty Dancing, and understudied Detective Marcus in the two-person musical Murder For Two at New World Stages, after appearing in productions of the show at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Adirondack Theatre Festival, and the 42nd St. Moon Theatre in San Francisco. He originated the role of Herb in the off-Broadway show Junie B. Jones (by Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich, based on the bestselling book series) at the Lucille Lortel Theatre; can be heard in the hit animated film Frozen; and has performed in many other productions throughout New York City and the country.
Adam has studied musical theater writing with Tony Award-winners Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime), Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza), and Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family), and screenwriting with Corey Mandell, Jacob Krueger and Jonathan Redding (Homeland). He is a graduate of Yale University, where he earned a B.A. in dramatic literature and music.