Jamie Cowperthwait

Jamie Cowperthwait is an award-winning songwriter, lyricist, and composer for theater, television, and the internet. His songs have been performed in numerous venues around New York City and the country. He is the winner, with Ok Kyun Kang, of the 2015 BMI Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theater Writing. He has written music and lyrics for commercial clients including Netflix, Wix.com, Buick, Coca Cola, and many more. His songs for the popular blog Awkward Family Photos have collectively garnered over a million hits on Youtube. He is the Music Director of the Saturday cast of The Possibility Project where he writes full-length musicals with New York City teenagers to help them create change in their communities. He holds an MFA from Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.