JOEL ADLEN

Artistic Resume

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THEATER

Lucy’s View

Librettist, Lyricist (with Composer/Lyricist Leonard Moors)Libretto - 2025

Suddenly Supernatural  (musical adaptation)
Librettist, Lyricist (with Composer/Lyricist, Librettist Leonard Moors) and additional material by Terry Berliner, adapted from the book by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel 

• AEA (Industry) Reading: Open Jar Studios, NY March 2024

• Reading:  Open Jar Studios, NY May, 2023

• Reading: Ripley Grier Studios, NY, September 2019

• Reading: Grier Studios, NY, June 2019

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Magical Thinking (original play)

Writer (Playwright) 

• Selection of "8x10 Play competition", Weathervane Playhouse, Akron, OH, May 2017

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Petrified (original musical)

Librettist, Lyricist (with Composer/Lyricist Leonard Moors)

• AEA (Industry) Reading: Cap 21, NY, 2014

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Petrified (original play)*

Playwright  

• * Winner: Part of "Best of Short Play Competition" Rochester Repertory Theater, MN 2014 

• Rochester Short Play competition, Rochester Repertory Theater, MN, 2010
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To Find Happy (original musical) 2012

Composer/Lyricist (contributing) 

• The Director’s Company, New York, 2012

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A Room with a View (musical adaptation of the EM Forster’s novel)

Librettist, Lyricist (with Composer/Lyricist Leonard Moors)

• CAP 21, NY Reading, 2010

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Emma (a musical adaptation of the Jane Austen novel)

Librettist, Lyricist, Composer  (with arrangements by Leonard Moors)

• New York Musical Theater Festival,  2007

• Elate Players, six week run, North Hollywood, CA, 2006

• Staged Concert, Most Holy Redeemer,- San Francisco, 2005

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Tea and Crumpets* (original musical)

Co-Librettist,  Lyricist, Composer

• USC/USA productions - Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998

• 450 Geary Studio, San Francisco  8 week run, 1997

• *Winner of San Francisco/Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award best musical score 1998

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Some Summer Night (Musical) 1992,1993

Composer, Lyricist

• New American Musical Writers Festival in New York

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Additional Theater Experience

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Workshops and Other

• “Gracie…from Economy Class” (book/lyrics) The Academy for New Musical Theatre, North Hollywood 2013   

• “Rice Women” (additional text) Facing East Dance Company, Univ of California, Berkeley CA 1999

• ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Workshops, Los Angeles (participant) 1992

• Los Angeles Theater Center, Music Theater Lab, “The Cry of the Banshee”  (music) 1989
   

Studio Recordings as Lyricist / Co-lyricist (and Producer)

• “Suddenly Supernatural” 2023

• “The Enemy (based on H. Ibsen’s, The Enemy of the People) 2014

• “Petrified” 2013

• “A Musical of Unfortunate Events” 2012

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MUSIC

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Arranger

Golden Gate Chamber Players/Summer 2026

• Arranger for chamber version of orchestral score, "The Moldau" by Bedřich Smetana, for piano, violin, viola, and two cellos.

[Private Commission] / December 2025, "12 Christmas Carols"- arrangements for cello, piano, and optional voice.

Golden Gate Chamber Players/ The Arbor, Berkeley, CA December 2025

Holiday Concert.  

• Arranger for Traditional holiday music for piano, violin, viola and cello

        (See the Music page for a publication for full list)

Golden Gate Chamber Players/ The Arbor, Berkeley, CA August 2025

Summer Concert.

• Transcriber -- Beethoven–Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op.11  (transcription clarinet/violin to cello)

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Publications​

• Unexpected Duets for two Cellos (Composer/Arranger): A spin of new music accompanying really old pedagogy, based on Alwin Schroeder's 170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello. Forthcoming (JW Pepper publisher)

• Duets for two Cellos Volume 2. A continuation of easy to Intermediate arrangements of works of Beethoven, Mozart, and others. For beginner and intermediate cellists.  Forthcoming:  (JW Pepper publisher) 2026

• 12 Christmas Carols - arrangements for cello, piano and optional voice.  (Sheet Music Plus, Sheet Music Direct, JW Pepper)  2026​​​

• Holiday Music -- 10 arrangements of holiday classics arranged for violin, viola, cello and piano.  (Sheet Music Plus, Sheet Music Direct)  2026​​​

• Duets for two Cellos Volume 1. 24 duets easy to Intermediate arrangements of works of Bach, Telemann, Handel, Scarlatti, and others. For beginner and intermediate cellists. (JW Pepper publisher) 2025
   

Live performance: Silent Films  by commission

Composer / Musician

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St. Mary's Candlelight Concerts, San Francisco 2012

The Scarlet Letter

 Castro Theater, San Francisco 2005

Peter Pan, and The Sheik

S. F. Film Preservation Society (at the Former Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley)  2002

Peter Pan and Rin Tin Tin 

Pacific Film Archive,  UC Berkeley, in Berkeley California, 2000-2003

Wind, La Maison du Mystère, Backstairs, Nana, The General Line, Dr. Mabuse, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Battleship Potemkin, plus many short-subject films.

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Memberships and Affiliations

ASCAP, Dramatists Guild