Music

Lesley Braver (she/her) is a musical theater writer from D.C., living in Brooklyn, NY. Her latest work is The Fish Queen of the Gowanus Canal, a concept musical about pollution, gender, and capitalism. It was performed in a site-specific production on a barge in the highly polluted Gowanus Canal, and the cast album is available on streaming services. Other musicals: Medusa (w/ Rachel Dean), Vinegar Tom (dir. Carlos Armesto), Galapago (w/ Andrea More), Hear No Evil in the Year 2090. Concept albums: METADATA, about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Love and Hate and Season 8, (w/ Sophie Capp) about Game of Thrones. Songs for the musical film Chatsworth (HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival). Film scores: Youth, (SXSW, dir. Farida Zahran), The Block Plan (best film, Helsinki Film Fest). Her songs have been featured at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, all the great Centers.