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
Book Release Announcement
I’m excited to share that my first book, The FeinLine Philosophy: 25 Creative Songwriting Exercises to Unleash Your Voice, is now available on Amazon.
This book brings together everything I’ve learned as a composer and educator into 25 powerful creative exercises designed to help you write songs that connect with audiences and sound exactly like…you.
At the heart of FeinLine Academy is a simple belief: creativity isn’t taught, it’s unleashed.
Inside the book, you’ll discover practical tools to help you write songs from character, turn dramatic moments into music, and unlock your own distinctive creative voice.
Whether you’re writing your first song or your fiftieth show, this book will meet you where you are, and push you further.
Start writing today, let’s go!
Bad News Bears in San Francisco
Like baseball, musical theatre is a team sport.
Twenty years ago, I turned to my close childhood friend, and extraordinary writing partner Eric Garcia, over food — of course — and said, "I want to do a Bad News Bears musical with you." He said, "Love it. How?" I said, "I'm not sure. But here’s a piece of music I’m thinking of….”
Now, two decades later, I couldn't be more thrilled to announce that THE BAD NEWS BEARS (A Musical!) is heading to its World Premiere at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, February 26, 2027. ⚾🐻(and that same piece of music is still in the show!)
None of this happens without the people who showed up for this team: our champion producer Marissa McMahon, the incomparable director Sherri Eden Barber who has steered this ship into something of real comic beauty and heart, and my long-time maestro Makulumy Alexander-Hills. And if you're ever going to be at the bottom of the 9th, you want the Showtown Theatricals team led by Jamison Scott and Nathan Gehan — keeping it all together.
To every actor, friend, family member, and yes, even our opposing teams along the way, and on the journey to come, thank you.
Certain material speaks to the very core of who you are. For me, it's always been the Bears.
We're heading to third. Stay tuned for casting and creative team updates!
Now back to rewrites. 💙
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.
