(Composer) is an award-winning musical theatre composer and lyricist, a solo artist and songwriter, a comedian, and a teacher. Named one of Playbill.com’s “Contemporary Musical Theatre Songwriters You Should Know,” Drew is currently developing a number of new stage musicals including the Broadway-bound musical adaptation of The Karate Kid, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures Night Shift, the current off-Broadway presentation of The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers (music & lyrics, book by Alex Brightman), and an adaptation of the Newberry Award-winning children’s book The Whipping Boy (music & lyrics, book by Alex Brightman). Other full-length musicals include an adaptation of the novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story (music & lyrics, book by Alex Brightman) and Make Me Bad (music & lyrics, book by Alex Brightman; world premiere April 2015 at Bloomington Playwrights Project). Drew was a contributing composer for the fictional musical Hit Liason on the NBC television series Smash, Oxygen’s The Next Big Thing (on which he could also be seen and heard), the children’s cooking program Monica’s Mixing Bowl, and for the popular one-woman off-Broadway show Hot Mess in Manhattan (“The Text Message Song”). The Music & Lyrics of Drew Gasparini was presented at Lincoln Center in 2015 and at the Kennedy Center in 2012, and Drew’s unique brand of musical theatre concerts are performed regularly to sold-out houses at esteemed NYC venues such as Joe’s Pub and 54 Below. Drew is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre workshop and his sheet music is available for purchase at NewMusicalTheatre.com, where he’s a top-10 best selling artist. Watch Drew in-studio performing his song “Kiss Me” here. thedrewgasparini.com