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Will Reynolds

Will Reynolds
Adjunct Professor

Will Reynolds is an actor, writer, and teaching artist. Will has written the music for The Violet Hour (based on the play by Richard Greenberg, developed by Manhattan Theatre Club), Radioactive, Around the World, and The Sixth Borough, all with Eric Price, with whom he won the 2018 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theater Writing. Will and Eric were also winners of the inaugural Lotte Lenya Songbook Competition, and songwriters on the animated series Central Park for Disney/AppleTV+. Will and Eric are co-founders of This MT Space, an online musical theatre educational experience.

Will is the composer/creator of The Greenwood Tree (based on the Sonnets by Shakespeare), developed by the Stratford Festival in Canada. 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 six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald’s album Go Back Home. His short musical The Whole World Is Watching was a commission by Marymount Manhattan College.

As an actor, Will has starred off-Broadway in Daddy Long Legs, Sondheim's Passion at Classic Stage Company (cast album on PS Classics), and in new musicals at the Old Globe, the Fifth Avenue, Walnut Street, and the Broadway National Tour of Mamma Mia! he He can also be seen in Streaming Musicals digital production of Emma. He is on the faculty of Pace University, Molloy College/CAP21, and is the music supervisor for Musical Theatre College Auditions (MTCA). He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG, and ASCAP.