
RYAN JACOBS
Composer | Lyricist | Playwright | Performer
About Me
Hi! I'm a New York-based theatre writer/performer/arranger. I also design and adjudicate shows for marching/pageantry arts. I'm a Berklee College of Music alum ('24), and I'm currently a composer in the second year of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop. My work has been performed across the country by groups like Piknik Theatre, the NAfME All-National High School Honor Choir, Berklee's "Curtain Up!" New-Works Ensemble, and Webster University's Chamber Choir, among others.
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Some career highlights I'm proud of: My first original musical Patches premiered in 2023 (commissioned by Piknik Theatre in Steamboat Springs, CO); I was a finalist in the 2025 Write Out Loud musical theatre songwriting competition with my original song "Duck Suit"; I was accepted into the 2025 Johnny Mercer Young Songwriter's Intensive; I received an arts grant from the Koch Family Foundation for my work at the BMI Workshop; I was a winner of Berklee's Curtain Up! musical theater songwriting competition four years in a row; I played mellophone (and keytar) with the 2021 and 2022 Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps; and I won the 2019 NAfME All-National Student Composers Competition with my original choir piece "When All Are Singing".
I'd love to connect!
