photo: Austin Huck (Hive Studio)
Jeffrey Song…
[he/him]… is a musician, composer, singer, actor, visual artist, and scientist. Regional acting credits include Assassins and Pacific Overtures (Lyric Stage Boston), Wild Goose Dreams and Once (SpeakEasy Stage), Henry VI, Part 3 (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, online production), The 49th Christmas Revels (Revels of Boston), Nomad Americana (Fresh Ink Theatre), Memorial (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Pinocchio (Wheelock Family Theatre), Astro Boy and the God of Comics (Company One), and Wild Swans (American Repertory Theater). He can also be heard on the NPR storytelling podcast Circle Round. Credits as Composer/Music Director include Vietgone (Studio Theatre, DC) and Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), and he was the music consultant for the Imagination Stage (DC) production of The Ballad of Mulan. Jeff has performed at various music festivals around the globe, and has appeared on over a dozen recordings - his original music featured on radio, television, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. As bassist for Ute Lemper (Punishing Kiss European tour), he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, L’Opéra de Vichy, and The Palermo Festival Di Verdura. A New England Foundation for the Arts grant recipient, Jeff holds an MM from New England Conservatory of Music. Jeff is also a research scientist with over 25 years of experience as a cell biologist and biochemist in drug-discovery, focusing on the research and development of biotechnology-derived therapeutics for multiple disease areas including oncology, inflammation and metabolic disease. He is a co-author on several scientific patents, and more than fifteen peer-reviewed scientific papers. As a visual artist, he works in several media, and has been developing a series of digital images titled MusicaMorte.
Research Science Publications
Published 2021 in Cancer Cell - PARP7 negatively regulates the type I interferon response in cancer cells and its inhibition triggers antitumor immunity.
Links
Howlround: A free and open platformfor theatremakers worldwide. “We amplify progressive, disruptive ideas about theatre and facilitate connection between diverse practitioners. We function as a “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. All of the content (essays, videos, podcasts) on HowlRound comes from the theatre community who chooses to participate—that means you!”
The Front Porch Arts Collective: The Front Porch Arts Collective is a new black-led theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater.
Arts Connect International: ACI partners with emerging arts leaders of color and arts influencers who hold institutional power in the contemporary art world, to collectively build equity, access, and inclusion through transformational leadership development.
Circle Round: WBUR's Circle Round is a podcast that adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 4 to 10. Each 10- to 20-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity. Notable voices from the stage and screen bring these stories to life with the help of narrator, writer, and veteran public radio host/reporter Rebecca Sheir. Circle Round has earned numerous honors, including a Parents' Choice Gold Award, a Webby nomination, and featured spots at the The UK International Radio Drama Festival and HEAR Now Festival. Circle Round was also the recipient of a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.