MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

UTSAV BHARGAVA is an NYC-based composer/lyricist, orchestrator, pianist, and copyist. On Broadway, he served as Copyist/Keyboard 2 Sub/Music Assistant/Rehearsal Pianist for A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical at the Broadhurst Theatre. He associate music directed Macbeth in Stride for Shakespeare Theatre Company. He was the Copyist/Music Assistant for Real Women Have Curves, and Orchestration Associate/Music Assistant for Gatsby, both at the American Repertory Theater. He continues to work regularly on music teams for productions and workshops of new musicals in New York and elsewhere, and has also worked as a music director for a number of youth theatre programs.

His work as a writer has been produced at Theatre Now’s Sound Bites X, at Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, and at Curtain Up, Berklee’s annual showcase of original musical theatre. He is a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Utsav is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he studied Film Scoring, Contemporary Writing & Production, and Musical Theatre Conducting. As an Indian-American artist, Utsav is passionate about bringing representation of marginalized groups to the theatre industry – both on stage and off.