Biography
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are emerging as a new songwriting team with a fresh voice in contemporary musical theatre. Collaborating since their freshman year, Pasek and Paul are Musical Theatre majors at the University of Michigan and will graduate college at the end of 2006. In the spring of 2005, the team premiered a revue of their work entitled EDGES. Originally billed as a one-night event at the University of Michigan, the material was enthusiastically received, spurring performances in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Connecticut, and New York City in venues such as The Kimmel Center and the June Havoc Theatre.
EDGES has since been performed numerous times across the country, produced at various colleges including The Boston Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon University, Emerson College, University of Miami, Westminster Choir College, New York University and many more. It has enjoyed professional productions in New York City, Portland, ME, California, and most recently with Northwestern University's American Musical Theatre Project. EDGES is now available for licensing through Music Theatre international.
In May of 2006, BECOME: The Music of Pasek and Paul was presented at Joe's Pub in New York City. The two sold-out concerts featured a host of Broadway performers, including Gavin Creel, Billy Porter, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Daniel Reichard, Cheyenne Jackson and Karen Mason. Benj and Justin then made their Ars Nova debut that July selling out two shows with special guests Mary Faber and Shoshana Bean. The duo was honored along with 12 selected writers as participants in the first ever Johnny Mercer Songwriting Festival and will be one of five teams featured at the reopening celebration of The Signature Theatre in Virginia. Pasek and Paul are writers for John Tartaglia's Disney Channel program "Johnny and the Sprites", and contributed music Off-Broadway's upcoming WHITE NOISE, A Cautionary Musical. They are currently working on a several new book musicals.
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