Samuel Perlman is a New York-based composer, orchestrator, music director, keyboardist, and reed player originally from Chicago, IL. He recently graduated from Northwestern University, where he studied composition and clarinet performance. While at Northwestern, he worked for four years on the Waa-Mu Show, serving as a lead orchestrator and music director in his junior and senior years. He also music directed the Wirtz Center’s 2022 production of Something Rotten and was active as a writer, including writing music and lyrics for his new musical Abandon All Hope: A Musical Comedy and an original score for a production of Julia Izumi’s Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea.
Outside of Northwestern, Samuel’s theatre credits include Big Fish (Marriott Theatre), Happily: The Musical (Actor’s Temple), Life After (Goodman Theatre), The Devil Wears Prada (James M. Nederlander Theatre), and Paradise Square (Nederlander). He has most recently worked as the assistant music director and copyist for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre’s workshops of Sinister, and as a music director at New Canaan High School in New Canaan, CT. He also writes and arranges for a wide range of chamber ensembles, including recent collaborations with Third Coast Percussion and Natalie Joachim. His piece Divertimento and Chorale for Euphonium Quartet was the runner-up in the 2018 North Texas Euphonium Quartet Composition Competition, and received its premiere by NTEQ in October of that year.
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