Edward Barnes, musical director, creative producer, The Night Kitchen Radio Theater

Edward Barnes has worked with theaters around the country including the Lincoln Center Theater Company, Mark Taper Forum, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, American Repertory Theater, Prince Music Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival and others.  The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Stephen Sondheim Award for “outstanding talent in creating innovative musical theater”, he was for 5 years the resident composer-librettist at L.A. Opera, where his A PLACE TO CALL HOME, MYSTERY ON THE DOCKS and A MUSKRAT LULLABY all premiered. He has also been composer-in-residence at the Fundaçao Sacatar in Brazil, the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming and the Fundación Valparaiso in Spain, and was a founding member of The Metro Ensemble, a California-based musical theater group, for whom he created the award-winning shows OLD AUNT DINAH’S SURE GUIDE TO DREAMS AND LUCKY NUMBERS and THE BONES OF LOVE. His many recent projects have included writing songs for a singing robot bird for the Walt Disney Studios, musical scores for OUR TOWN at Bay Street Theater, KILT at the Directors Company, and a collaboration with Garrison Keillor, THE OLD MAN WHO LOVED CHEESE, for the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis. He produced the world concert premiere of John Barry’s Academy Award-winning score to A LION IN WINTER at Carnegie Hall, Philip Glass’ opera THE JUNIPER TREE and Scott Joplin’s TREEMONISHA for the Collegiate Chorale at Lincoln Center, and the upcoming NY Premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s WHITE CANTATA at Jazz @ Lincoln Center.