Lynn Portas

is a critically acclaimed composer, pianist, vocalist, and musical director. A native New Yorker, Portas has performed and recorded widely, and her theatre works have been seen and heard in productions over decades.   Performing frequently as a singer/keyboardist in the New York tristate area, Lynn’s earlier credits as Musical Director include Off-Broadway smash hit Tony and Tina’s Wedding, as well as Totally Tubular Time Machine, Finnegan’s Farewell, and Channeling the King. She is a member of the nationally acclaimed BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theater Workshop and a chosen composer for the New York ASCAP Musical Theater Workshops at Merkin Hall, New York City. 

Portas also works as a studio musician, writing and recording jazz, pop, and contemporary house music including with the legendary Richie Havens for the Tex Murphy Overseer soundtrack at Bernard Fox Studio. Her latest song “Reveal”, written with lyricist Chauncey Dandridge, prior to actually being “dropped”, has already been lighting up dance floors downtown. Her original works for the New York City Gay Men’s Choir were performed at Lincoln Center, and her songs of many genre are heard in many New York theaters and clubs. Portas also has a long history of scoring music for film, as well as for various web and gaming series. A former New York City Public School teacher, she recorded children’s albums Same Old Lunch, Only Boloney, Are We There Yet, and Blah Day, and staged children’s musicals Penelope the Tooth Fairy and A Boy and His Dog. Lynn has been deemed an educational composer-in-residence, visiting schools, and writing music with young people through interdisciplinary studies. She is also a former Professor of Music at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn, New York, and the Long Island School for the Gifted.

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Lynn's original music and lyrics for the hard-hitting musical Doing Time with Lavinia (written and performed by Susan Campanero) took home both the Best Musical (Campanero, Portas) and Best Composer (Portas) awards at the conclusion of the 2022 United Solo Festival. 

The show is slated for a performance in Edinburgh, U.K in August of 2024.

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