Eddie Bean is a Manhattan-based writer, composer, performer, and educator. Recent works include: Kafka's Metamorphosis the Musical (Mercury Store, 2025), Boarheart & Doodoo (The Producers Club, 2025), Duality (The Apollo Theater, 2025), No One Is Coming (wild project, 2025), Quiddawick (Open Jar Studios, 2025), The Escape (Mercury Store, 2024), and Stevie and the Infinite Scroll (Power Station, 2022). His former band, The Gazebo, released an improvisatory art-rock album Hiding Places in October 2016. 

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He has taught privately as well as at public high schools, universities, summer camps, and elementary schools, in the United States and abroad. 

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He has assisted acclaimed musical theatre composer JRB on multitudinous projects since 2015 including Broadway's Mr. Saturday Night, Honeymoon in Vegas, Prince of Broadway, King Kong, The Connector, Parade, 13, Songs for a New World, and Farewell My Concubine. He formed his first band, The Ed Cat Relationship, with his brother at the age of 10. In middle school he attempted to spearhead a comedy ska band (trombone, lol) and then spent his formative years playing progressive rock at dive bars.

He studied Music Theory and Composition at New York University and Musical Theatre Writing at BerkleeNYC. He writes songs, lyrics, musicals, and theatrical scores. Eddie has a cat named Tybalt and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America. 

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