Musical Playwright · Composer · Lyricist
Jeremy Daniel Lynch
A musical playwright obsessed with melody, heart, and moral stakes.
Musical Playwright · Composer · Lyricist
A musical playwright obsessed with melody, heart, and moral stakes.
The Artist
Jeremy Daniel Lynch is a playwright, lyricist, composer, actor, and musician from Washington State whose musicals explore dignity, ambition, and the human cost of progress.
Shaped by fifteen years as a performer and years in the pit as a professional violinist — including engagements at Village Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre — he brings a rare inside-out understanding of the theatre to his writing.
His debut musical, Pauper, was recorded with a live orchestra and choir of nearly sixty musicians — arranged, orchestrated, copied, and coordinated by Lynch alone in five weeks.
Musical theatre has been Jeremy's home for more than fifteen years. He's been onstage, in the pit, behind the music stand, inside the rehearsal room, and at the desk trying to make the thing work.
That matters.
Jeremy doesn't write musicals from a distance. He knows what a lyric has to do for an actor. He knows what a melody has to survive in a singer's body. He knows what a score asks of musicians, and what a scene has to earn before anyone should start singing.
His work is driven by melody, heart, humor, and moral stakes. He's drawn to characters caught between comfort and courage, ambition and integrity, belonging and becoming.
He loves the old forms, but he's not interested in museum pieces. Jeremy writes musicals that feel alive — crafted with care, built for the stage, and full of human ache.
Completed Work
In June 2024, Jeremy Lynch set out to record his debut musical with a single goal: bring Pauper to life. The first session featured nineteen players and a solo vocalist — a proof of concept that worked. Within days, he had a bigger idea.
In five weeks, Lynch orchestrated four additional songs, coordinated nearly sixty schedules, secured a venue, hired video and audio teams, and arranged meals for every performer — all while fundraising. The second session took place August 24th. Nearly sixty singers and musicians filled the room, most of them volunteers who gave their time because they believed in the project. Lynch mixed the final recordings himself.
Change Is A-Comin' — The mice of Court's Grove rally in this show-stopping anthem.
Mouse About Town / Payday Rag — Castle Heights and The Counter in counterpoint.
I'll Wait — Miss Polly waits patiently for love from a certain neighbor.
Cats! — Mass panic consumes Court's Grove at news of a prowling cat.
Wimble's on His Way — The towns prepare feverishly for the Governor's arrival.
Can You Be the Same Again? — Miss Polly contemplates love, adventure, and loss.
In Development
"A tower built without love cannot stand."
Set during the construction of the Eiffel Tower and the Exposition Universelle of 1889, Eiffel's Paris follows idealistic composer Joseph Deschamps as he falls into conflict with his patron — the forward-thinking Gustave Eiffel — and with Paris itself.
When Joseph falls for Eiffel's daughter Juliette, a gifted ballerina hiding her identity to forge her own path, and encounters Hassan El-Karim — a Moroccan inventor displayed as a "colonial villager" — he is forced to reckon with what progress truly costs.
The score draws on French Impressionist influences — Satie, Debussy, Ravel — in conversation with the structure of the American Golden Age musical.
Beyond Paris — Juliette refuses her father's interference and resolves to make her own name.
If Life Were Simple — Facing eviction, Marie lets herself dream of a different life.
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"When the lights go down and the curtain comes up, a magical thing happens—we're simply together."