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Happy Fall 2025!
My award-winning off-Broadway musical Love Quirks was a smash off-West End at The Other Palace Studio Theatre in London! More information here! We received two 5 star reviews, five 4 star reviews, and twelve 3 star reviews, and got nominated for 4 Fringe Theatre Awards including Best Lyrics and Best Production of a Musical!
Here’s a feature I did with Jewish News about the show!
All That Dazzles proclaimed in its 5 star review:
“It’s not easy to write a musical score that is both memorable and emotional, but Seth Bisen-Hersh does exactly that and then some. The songs are smart, fresh, and extremely catchy. They manage to help with progressing character development without ever feeling too explanatory. The harmonies in group numbers like ‘Love Quirks’ and ‘In Love’ are rich and tight, and the cast sings them beautifully. There’s a particular magic when their voices blend, as if the sound of their friendship is fixed in the music.”
More review quotes and links on my Press page!
Inspired by my grandmother’s Holocaust story, “Malka” is a 17 minute musical narrative film starring 4 time Tony/2 time Emmy Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh and Broadway/TV regular Annabelle Wachtel. Malka, a Holocaust survivor, starts to see visions of her life at the camps during a present-day family seder. As time falls in on itself, Malka must find the hope in the present that she did in the past in order to survive.
We are thrilled that “Malka” has had such a great film festival run, including winning BEST NARRATIVE SHORT at the Oscar Qualifying Cinequest Film Festival making it eligible to be nominated for an Oscar. It also won BEST SCORE for my music at the AMT International Film Festival in NYC. Up next, “Malka” will appear at the Philadelphia Jewish Film & Media Festival, November 16th, 2025 at 7PM and later in November, the Moscow Jewish Film Festival in Russia!
Read an interview that I did about the EB Indie Film Festival here!
I was commissioned and wrote a new book of 50 crossword puzzles inspired by the 1980s! You can buy a copy by clicking below!
I celebrated my 900th showcase at Don’t Tell Mama on September 9th & 12th, 2025 with 27 singers. Details here! And you can actually watch the Friday concert here:
In September 2024, we had a week NYC run of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz which was nominated for 5 BroadwayWorld Awards: Best New Musical, Best Musical Production, Best New Musical Score, Best New Musical Book & Best Director of a Musical for off-off-Broadway!
We had our first reading of my new musical Agatha Christie’s The Secret Adversary in April 2024. More news soon! Click on the photo below to see who was a part of the cast:
My 4th book is now available! The Making of a Musical comprehensively discusses the twelve-year journey of my award-winning off-Broadway musical Love Quirks including both the writing and the producing. Click below to order your copy! And FYI, Love Quirks also had its college premiere at Hofstra University, Saturday, April 6th & Sunday, April 7th at 7PM!
On Thursday, November 9th, 2023, I produced a benefit at Don’t Tell Mama to benefit the Israeli charity NATAL. More details here, and you can watch the video below and donate to the charity by clicking on the photo below.
My podcast “Millennials are Ruining the World? an Xennial perspective: Real conversations bridging the gap between Generations X&Y ‘I’m not woke, but I’m awake!’” has ended its 5th season. Listen below!
In puzzle news: I made my New York Times Crossword Debut on Monday, January 2, 2023, my 2nd puzzle was June 25, 2024 & my third was January 1, 2025, which is also my 15th published puzzle, though now I’m up to 20! Check out my Puzzle page for more details!
Also, Love Quirks has being licensed (details & reviews here). If you know any interested student groups or community theaters, please reach out! Summer 2022, after 12 years, Love Quirks which won 4 Off-Broadway BroadwayWorld Awards including Best Musical Production and Best Score for my music/lyrics officially OPENED OFF-BROADWAY and ran for 12 weeks. The original Love Quirks off-Broadway cast recording is available on all streaming platforms, and if you’re old school, you can order one of the 500 limited copies at Kritzerland.
I premiered MOSTLY SETH, my first solo show since 2015, off-Broadway at AMT Theater as part of their cabaret week on November 9th, 2022. More info is available here, and you can actually watch the entire show here:
Visit the Showcase page to see who is performing LIVE Tuesdays at 7PM at Don’t Tell Mama and for the list of the over 5,000 performers who have previously joined me since 2007 and here’s an interview I did after one in 2019, a review of our Women Composer Cabaret in 2023, and a review of the 550th Showcase in 2019, which was a Jerry Herman Cabaret.
The audiobook version (featuring myself as narrator!) of my third book: Millennials are Ruining the World! is available on Audible, HERE.
Here are videos from me at Gotham Comedy Club: here and Broadway Comedy Club, here and here! While I’m presenting videos, August 2019 I got a little bored so I did this cute Muppet Green Acres video: Enjoy! In other comedy news, I’ve completed all of the UCB’s core Long-Form Improv program.
In 2019, I launched my Performer Page where you can find videos of standup, monologues, scenes and a still from the first feature film I shot.
Also in 2019, “Enough Already” from The Diamond as Big as the Ritz was selected out of almost 200 songs as a finalist for London’s prestigious Stiles & Drewe Prize. If you didn’t see the Get Out the Vote music video of it starring Mario Lopez released October 2018, you can view it: here:
More information about that show can be found on its webpage: here. You can purchase the cast recording on Amazon, and it’s also streaming.
Check out the side section: “Seth Abridged” for links to my sitcom pilot, my books, my 3 YouTube channels (music, comedy, cabaret) and my CDs, and you can now get the sheet music to 200 of my songs at the Seth Store!
Finally, for those of you who are Ob-Seth-ed, please check out the personal section, which features my ledger blog, picture galleries, my cat: Joni’s page, puzzles I’ve written and more! If you haven’t read my epic trip highlights, here are direct links: Italy, January 2024, Guatemala, February 2023; Japan, September 2022; Switzerland/Milan/Belgium, August 2019; Portugal/Spain/Gibraltar/Morocco, May 2019; Scandinavia, August 2018; India, January 2018; United Kingdom, May 2017; Poland/Austria/Prague, July 2016; Iceland, May 2015; Germany/Paris, August 2014; Ireland/Copenhagen, Sept 2013 and Shanghai, Feb 2011.
