Harley erdman
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    • Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain
    • Jealous of Herself
    • Remaking the Comedia
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    • Staging the Jew
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Harley Erdman is a theater writer whose work includes original plays, opera librettos, book & lyrics for musicals, translations, and adaptations.

With composer Eric Sawyer, he has created the operas The Scarlet Professor and The Garden of Martyrs, the latter of which was a finalist for the American Prize. His screwball comedy Nobody’s Girl, based on the true story of a pioneering woman theater manager, was commissioned for the Northampton Academy of Music. With composer Aaron Jones and co-writer Gina Kaufmann, he is creating the indie-rock musical Legacy Boy which adapts the Don Juan legend to a contemporary college campus.
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  • Home
  • Translations & Adaptations
    • Wild Thing
    • Jealous of Herself
    • Suitors
    • Marta the Divine
  • Musicals & Operas
    • Legacy Boy
    • The Scarlet Professor
    • The Garden of Martyrs
  • Plays
    • Nobody's Girl
    • The Restoration Room
    • Crowsnest
  • Books
    • The Mountain Girl from La Vera
    • Women Playwrights of Early Modern Spain
    • Jealous of Herself
    • Remaking the Comedia
    • Marta the Divine
    • Staging the Jew
  • Contact