Bruce Levine

Bruce Levine is a theatre and music professional, a composer, a writer and an academic. His life in theatre and music began in high school as a student musical director, oboist and pianist, and he turned professional immediately after graduation as a member of the original Broadway cast of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” As an oboist, specializing on the English Horn, he played with such orchestras as the Boston Symphony. His stage and musical direction experiences have crossed most boundaries and genres including Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, touring and children’s theatre and he’s played piano for Joni Mitchell in Madison Square Garden.

His music publishers include Carl Fischer, Theodore Presser, Norsk Musikforlag and over sixty pieces can be Seen and Heard on Art of Sound Music. He’s been a “Pushcart Prize” poetry nominee, a “Spillwords Press Awards” winner, a WestWard Quarterly “Featured Writer” and over three hundred pieces of his poetry and fiction are published online, in print anthologies and the chapbook “Sweet Dreams.”

Bruce holds a Master of Arts degree in music composition and a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from New York University. He’s taught theatre, musical theatre, IB theatre and music, been a choral director, and a stage and musical director of numerous shows on both the High School and College levels. He maintains an active theatre, music and academic schedule, including judging the Maine Regional Drama Festival, as well as a composer of a featured song for Sesame Street, arrangements for Barry Manilow and Stevie Wonder, classical music ranging from solos to symphony orchestra, and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country.

He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.