Composer/Lyricist
Brett is an award-winning composer and lyricist. His musical Foreverman premiered at the New York Musical Festival where it won awards for Outstanding Orchestrations and garnered the New World Stages Development Prize.
His musical adaptation of Benjamin Button (written with composer Natalie Tenenbaum) has been seen at the York Theatre in Manhattan and the Southwark Playhouse in London.
Brett has also collaborated with playwright Bill C. Davis (Broadway's Mass Appeal ) on Village Rites and with writer/director Michael Loman (Bob Newhart Show and Sesame Street) on Home Sweet Home.
In 2013, Brett co-conceived From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook, which aired on PBS. Other collaborators on that project include Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll and Hyde), Marc Shaiman (Hairspray), and Stephen Schwartz (Wicked).
His musical adaptation of Benjamin Button (written with composer Natalie Tenenbaum) has been seen at the York Theatre in Manhattan and the Southwark Playhouse in London.
Brett has also collaborated with playwright Bill C. Davis (Broadway's Mass Appeal ) on Village Rites and with writer/director Michael Loman (Bob Newhart Show and Sesame Street) on Home Sweet Home.
In 2013, Brett co-conceived From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook, which aired on PBS. Other collaborators on that project include Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll and Hyde), Marc Shaiman (Hairspray), and Stephen Schwartz (Wicked).
As an actor, Brett has appeared in many productions in CT, as well as appearing in the original Broadway production of Les Miserables in 2003. Favorite roles have included Don Quixote/Cervantes in Man of La Mancha, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Jekyll and Hyde in Jekyll and Hyde, and Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Brett is currently at work as a audiobook narrator.
Brett also serves as the Director of the Trumbull Youth Association's summer productions. Past productions have included Thoroughly Modern Millie, Children of Eden, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Ragtime, Shrek, and West Side Story. |
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