Julie Lyonn Lieberman’s Work as a Composer for theatre, dance, and more…
Julie Lyonn Lieberman is the recipient of over two dozen ASCAP awards and eight Meet the Composer awards and has performed her original music off Broadway, throughout the U.S., Canada, and in Europe, as well as on television and radio. She also has five recordings of original music to her credit.
She composed the music for the Off-Broadway play "The Yellow House" by Leonardo Shapiro, which won critical acclaim in the late eighties, premiering at La Mama in New York City for 30 days, followed a thirty-night run at the Theatre of Nations Festival. She played violin, keyboards, and sang for the production.
She also acted as composer-in-residence for four seasons at the City Center Manhattan Theatre Club Writers in Performance series. Her music for Alec Baldwin’s/Steve Lawrence’s production of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" aired on WNYC after premiering at City Center. Other productions include, "The Don," based on Edith Grossman’s new translation and in celebration of Don Quixote’s 400th birthday starring Mario Cantone, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Daphne Rubin-Vega; "Hemingway," starring Peter Gallagher, and "Edgar," based on the life and writings of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as two other shows.
Julie Lyonn Lieberman is the author of 12 music books distributed by Hal Leonard. She composed music in American and world styles for many of her titles ("Rockin' Out with Blues Fiddle," "Improvising Violin," "How to Play Contemporary Strings," "The Contemporary Violinist," etc.)
She was also the composer-in-residence for the first feminist theatre company in the world, “Emmatroupe,” for a handful of years in the 1980s. The productions were contributed to by writers Gloria Steinem, Kate Millet, and Andrea Dworkin and directed by Eleanor Johnson. The off-off-Broadway productions included “A Girl Starts Out” and “Against Silence.”