TUNE OUT. TURN OFF. DROP IN.
BY ADAM BERNSTEIN & BRIAN O'NEILL
ABOUT
1805 Vienna. Beethoven struggles to complete his famous 5th Symphony, accidentally ingests Magic Mushrooms, and travels in time to 1971 San Francisco, materializing in the living room of Sly Stone, of Sly & The Family Stone. Inspired by each others genius, they endeavor to help one another rediscover their “Muses” and complete their respective projects.
Tune out. Turn off. Drop in...
Adam Bernstein (Music & Lyrics)
writes, produces and performs his own music and is a freelance bassist in NYC.
He composed the score for the film “The Bride in the Box” which was featured at the Maine International Film Festival and the Big Apple Film Festival in NYC. His music has been featured in the TV series "Degrassi", "Heartland" and the films "Abduction" and "Wet Behind the Ears". His scores for Noah Fischers' Manifesto Currency series (narr: Peter Coyote) has been featured on CNN.
An accomplished composer, arranger and bassist, he has performed and recorded with a wide range of talented musicians, including Levon Helm, Jonathan Coulton, Joan Osbourne, and many others.
Adam has released twelve solo albums of original material since 2001, varying from singer-songwriter pop, more hard edged rock music, film scores and songs/scored works from the Grown Ass Men podcast which he produces with the writer Doug Bost.
Brian O’Neill (Book)
is a resident of New York city where he has worked continually in the entertainment industry as a writer, actor, director musician and filmmaker for three decades. He serves on the faculty of AMDA as an acting instructor, and is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Workshop.
His first full-length play, GRASS ISLAND, was a 2004 recipient of the Julie Harris National Playwrighting Award, and received readings at the Actors Studio in New York City, directed by James Naughton and featuring Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden, and at The Berkshire Theatre Festival in their formal Friday Reading Series. His play, TO SEE THEM SAY, was selected as a 2012 O’Neill Summer Theatre Conference semi-finalist. His short screenplay THE RENOVATION received Honorable Mention at the California International Shorts Festival and his script, VIVA RADILLA, received the Best Short Screenplay Award at the 2013 Woods Hole Film Festival.
