"A storyteller with a bold, imaginative voice."

        —Kirsten Childs

MICHAEL WARTOFSKY is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he established an undergraduate minor in Musical Theater Writing in 2015 and won a Distinguished Faculty Award in 2018.  His album "All the Possibilities: Broadway Sings Wartofsky" on Yellow Sound Label features twelve breathtaking Broadway voices interpreting his original songs. 

 

Michael composed the musicals Car Talk: The Musical!!! and Cupcake, both produced in Boston in 2012, and wrote music/lyrics for The Man in My Head starring Darius de Haas at New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) 2006.  In 2014, he was a finalist in the Davenport Musical Theater Songwriting Contest, and his song “Without Your Love” was released on Write This Way, a solo album by John Michael Dias.  In 2013, Michael’s songs were featured in the revue Never Far From Home at Central Square Theater with script by Broadway playwright Lydia Diamond; and in The Concert hosted by Seth Rudetsky at Second Stage in NYC. The Broadway Boys have performed on numerous occasions "All the Possibilities," named one of the “top 25 songs” of 2012 by ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com.

 

Adjunct faculty and alumnus, NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program; Founder, NOMTI (New Opera & Musical Theater Initiative); member, The Dramatist Guild.  Winner, Frederick Loewe Foundation First Look Award 2009; Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in Music Composition, 1997.