Sheilah Rae has had an extensive career in the Theatre and the Music Business. She has been a performer in such Broadway musicals as “Fiddler On the Roof “, “Applause”, “The Rothschilds”, and “Company” (Playwrights Horizons). She served on the production team of Rupert Holmes’ Broadway thrillers, “Accomplice” and “Solitary Confinement” starring Stacy Keach. As a partner in her own music production company, she produced original music and/or lyrics for such clients as Time, People, Doritos, Beechnut Baby Food, Ben Gay, etc. As a songwriter she has written numerous pop songs for both New York and Nashville recording artists, been a recording artist on RCA, performed in nightclubs, sung back-up for such artists as Barry Manilow, written a variety of theme songs for TV. She co-created “Funny, You Don’t Look Like A Grandmother,” with Lois Wyse and Robert Waldman, which she also produced in Los Angeles. She is lyricist and co-book writer of “I Married Wyatt Earp,” a new musical based loosely on the life of Josephine Sarah Marcus, the third wife of Wyatt Earp. This show has had developmental workshop productions with The Tennessee Rep, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and ASCAP/Disney, and the Falcon Theater in LA,  and is slated for a world premiere for Fall 2005. She is also an Associate Producer of the new Barry Manilow Broadway bound musical ‘Harmony’. Works in progress include family entertainments, “Virtues!” with Kleban Award wining lyricist Jim Morgan, and “I Don’t Want to Go To Bed” also with Lois Wyse. She has won songwriting awards from Billboard, Music City Song Festival, Variety, and in 1999 was awarded the Rising Star Galaxy Award from the NY Women’s Agenda for outstanding work in the theater. She served on the Council for Songwriters Guild of America, and is President of the League of Professional Theatre Women. She was a founding member of the Grammys in the Schools Program, a national education program about the Music Industry, and has been a guest lecturer about Music in Advertising at several colleges. Sheilah is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and also trained in London at the Royal Academy of Music, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is a member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA, Local 802, The Dramatist Guild, and is a Grammy Voting Member of NARAS. She teaches the songwriting workshops at the Singers Forum, NY. She is married to Dr. Elliott Gross and has two children: recording artist, Victoria and investment analyst, Max.

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