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Akiva Romer-Segal

Composer/Lyricist

Akiva Romer-Segal is a Toronto-based lyricist and adaptor. With composer Colleen Dauncey, he has written the scores to The Louder We Get (Theatre Calgary, Segal Centre), Grow (Grand Theatre, Godspeed Festival), Bremen Rock City (Toronto Fringe) Going Under (Bravo Academy, St. Lawrence College), Scenes from the Bathhouse, Offline (Talk is Free Theatre) and Vinyl Cafe: The Musical (Citadel Theatre). They have been celebrated as "the future of Canadian musical theatre" (Toronto Star) and "the Canadian musical's next power duo" (The Globe & Mail). Grow and Bremen Rock City were shortlisted for Best Musical by the Playwrights Guild of Canada's Tom Hendry Awards, and The Louder We Get received the top honour in 2016. Akiva also provided the English translations/adaptations of the Hebrew shows April Fools and The One My Soul Loves for the Segal Centre. 

 

Works by Akiva Romer-Segal

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Bremen Rock City

By Colleen Dauncey & Akiva Romer-Segal

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Going Under

By Colleen Dauncey & Matt Murray & Akiva Romer-Segal

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Grow

By Colleen Dauncey & Matt Murray & Akiva Romer-Segal

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The Louder We Get

By Colleen Dauncey & Akiva Romer-Segal

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(Praise for Bremen Rock City:)

The Fringe survived our July monsoons to come up with record attendance and fielded a surefire commercial hit for the future with the hippest kids’ musical ever, 'Bremen Rock City', the brainchild of Colleen Dauncey, Akiva Romer-Segal and Sara Farb. 

Toronto Star
Richard Ouzounian

The songs Dauncey and Romer-Segal have written are sophisticated and professionally polished. Dauncey’s music is a nice mixture of musical theatre and rock n’ roll with some powerful four-part harmony, while Romer-Segal’s lyrics have tight, clever rhymes at times reminiscent of the work of Stephen Sondheim.

The Way I See It
Amanda Campbell

I would gladly hand the keys to the musical comedy kingdom of the next generation over to these young people.

Toronto Star
Richard Ouzounian

(Praise for Grow:)

Colleen and Akiva’s new musical comedy about Amish twins and cannabis trade, could be the next Come From Away

Globe & Mail

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These theatre artists are living with cancer — here’s how you cope when you’re in a precarious profession

Playwrights Andrea Scott and Akiva-Romer Segal talk about how they’ve handled cancer...

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