BIOGRAPHY
Rusty Magee
Rusty Magee is a composer, pianist, and performer who has composed the music and lyrics for The Imaginary Invalid, Ubu Rock, and The Servant of Two Masters at the American Repertory Theater. He won the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Composer for his music and lyrics for the production of Andrei Belgrader and Shelley Berc's adaptation of Molière's Scapin at the Classic Stage Company, also produced at Yale Repertory Theatre and A.C.T. He wrote the music and lyrics for The Green Heart, book by Charles Busch, produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club. He co-wrote the musical The Czar of Rock & Roll, produced at the Alley Theatre, Houston, and was the musical conductor for Harold Prince's Grandchild of Kings Off-Broadway. He also wrote music for John Patrick Shanley's The Fool and Her Fortune. Mr. Magee recently appeared at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, singing and playing the piano in Frank McCourt's The Irish … And How They Got That Way.