Home to the creative vision of award-winning composer, playwright, and educator Brian Feinstein.
Home to the creative vision of award-winning composer, playwright, and educator
Brian Feinstein.
Experience the musicals. Join the Academy.
Find your voice. The lights are up.
Experience the musicals. Join the Academy.
Find your voice.
The lights are up.
"Brian Feinstein has a ridiculous gift for melody. He can make anything sing."
Bill Finn
Tony Award–winning writer of Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
A "Fruitful" Debut: Once Upon A Song Transforms 'Ollie Orange' into a Musical
On January 25, FeinLine Academy debuts Once Upon A Song, a new pop-up creation experience where young performers transform a children’s book into an original musical theatre song in just four hours. Led by composer and educator Brian Feinstein, the pilot workshop—hosted in partnership with Clauds Stein and Ethos Theatre Company at the Barrow Group Performing Arts Center—guides students through writing, rehearsing, and performing an original song inspired by Shannon Thomas’s recently released book Ollie Orange and the School of Fruit, culminating in a same-day showcase for families and guests. Designed as a joyful, hands-on creation event, Once Upon A Song celebrates collaboration, imagination, and the thrill of helping kids see themselves as creators. Learn more about the FeinLine Academy here!
Brian Feinstein is an award-winning composer and playwright whose melodic sensibility bridges traditional and contemporary musical theatre. Drawing inspiration from masters like Rodgers, Menken, Yeston, and Schönberg—with a dash of Crowded House (IYKYK)—his compositions are unmistakably his own: character-driven, melodically rich, and infused with both whimsy and emotional depth. His work has been seen Off- Broadway, across the country, and in classrooms filled with young dreamers.
His musicals span Parisian rooftops, blue-collar baseball fields, bone-burying backyards, and small-town diners where a man once decided to eat a 747. (Yes, really.)
A graduate of USC's School of Cinema and NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Brian’s first Off-Broadway show, Mimi Le Duck, starred the legendary Eartha Kitt in her final stage performance, a formative experience that continues to shape the soul, humor, and heartbeat of his work.
