Shahar (Clay) Herzberg
Biography
Shahar (Clay) Herzberg (he/him) is an award winning composer of Iraqi descent based in New York City. Since immigrating to the United States, he has written three short musicals and two one-acts – including AIDEN (Winner! Short Play Festival NYC 2025, Surfside Playhouse 2024, Lincoln Center 2023), The Amazons of Overcote High (New York Theater Festival 2025, Lincoln Center 2024), The Legend of Rachel (New York Theater Festival 2025), Dead Letter Perfect (In Hebrew, developmental readings in Tel-Aviv 2022-2024), When You Dance (Ha’Studio, Haifa, 2018).
Shahar is a current member of Actor Therapy’s Musical Theater Writing advanced class led by Ryan Scott Oliver, and alumnus of Lipper’s Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, the BPM College for Sound and Music Production, and the Rubin Conservatory of Music.
Shahar has also composed for several indie video games and short movies.
Professional Experience
- Regional
- TV/Film
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
Interested in touring?
- No
Hireable as
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Orchestrator
- Vocal Arranger
- Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
- Music Transcriber
My Primary Instrument
- Piano
My Instruments
- Piano
- Synth - keyboards
Software
- Dorico
- Other
Pronouns
- He/Him