Reincarnation Blues is a musical journey about a soul who is reincarnated 10,000 times to be with his one true love:
Death herself.
Death herself.
The Team
Ben Thornewill (co-composer & lyricist) is the lead singer and pianist of the piano-pop trio Jukebox The Ghost. Over the past two decades, the band has released eight studio albums, performed on multiple late-night TV shows, and played nearly a thousand shows—including major festivals—building a devoted fanbase and regularly selling out venues across the country. Beyond his work with Jukebox The Ghost, Ben releases solo music under his own name. His album Quiet At The End Of The Day has garnered millions of streams, led by the single “Songbirds.” His viral project, Names Into Music, transforms people’s names into unique, personalized compositions. A classically trained pianist and composer, Ben is currently developing two musicals while also working as a film composer (Egghead & Twinkie), session pianist (Sting, Ingrid Michaelson), music producer, and arranger. Ben ThornewillMusic + Lyrics
Josh Sobel / FutureHome (Producer) is a multimedia multi-disciplinary development and production incubator dedicated to leaving the world more hopeful than they found it, and was part of the Tony-winning producing team of Appropriate feat. Sarah Paulson. Additional credits include Broadway’s Gutenberg! The Musical! feat. Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells (Tony Nominee / Drama Desk Nominee) and the box-office hit revival of The Wiz feat. Wayne Brady, along with the current UK tour of hit parody Hold On To Your Butts by New York company Recent Cutbacks. Josh is also a decorated director, dramaturg / development consultant, and educator, and was named one of Newcity’s “Players 2019: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago”. He has had the privilege of working with Avery Brooks (American History X, Julie Taymor’s The Tempest) and John De Lancie (Star Trek: TNG), and his work has sold out at Steppenwolf Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe, where FutureHome’s Awake & Narcoleptic with Sarah Albritton was named a Playbill Pick by Playbill Editor-in-Chief Diep Tran. Prior to FutureHome Josh served as Artistic Director of Haven Chicago (2014-2019) and Associate Director of “Theatermakers” at the O’Neill National Theater Institute (2010-2012), with additional roles and credits at Victory Gardens Theater, Steep Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Strawdog Theatre, CalArts, and the University of Iowa. He has taught directing, text analysis, dramatic literature and professional development at CalArts, Columbia College Chicago, the O’Neill National Theater Institute and more. SDCF Observer 2012. MFA, CalArts. BA, Oberlin College. Josh Sobel (FutureHome)Producer
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Coyle Girelli (co-composer & lyricist) is a British recording artist, singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Formerly fronting alternative rock bands Your Vegas and most recently The Chevin, he released his debut solo album “Love Kills” in late 2018, sophomore album “Funland” in 2022 featuring single "Do You Wanna Dance?" and third solo album “Museum Day” in late 2023. His fourth solo album is scheduled for release in the summer of 2025. He co-wrote songs for award-winning, record-breaking French musicals ‘Robin Des Bois’ (2013) and ‘Les Trois Mousquataries’ (2016.) He is currently working on several new musicals in his adopted hometown, New York City, including “True Love Forever,” an immersive theater show that Girelli created in partnership with Third Rail Projects which opened in New York in Fall 2024, “Reincarnation Blues” and “Choreomania.” Coyle GirelliMusic + Lyrics
Michael Graf (Co-Producer) is a passionate advocate for storytelling and live theater with extensive experience across stage and screen. His notable theatrical work includes co-producing The Roommate on Broadway, starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow. His career spans prestigious networks including AMC, BBC, and HGTV, where he served as a television executive. Michael brings his wealth of production expertise to Reincarnation Blues and is thrilled to help bring this compelling story to the stage. Michael GrafProducer
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LDK Productions (Executive Producer / General Management) is a theatrical general management and producing firm based in New York City, founded by Lisa Dozier Shacket in 2007. Current/ Recent: Winesday: The Wine Tasting Musical, The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, Without You (NYC, San Francisco, Japan, Boston), Emergence, The Night of the Iguana, Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, White Rose The Musical and Alive: The Zombie Musical. Select Past Credits: The immersive theatrical adaptation of Sideways, Kennedy: Bobby’s Last Crusade (Off Broadway and Broadway on Demand stream), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, A Letter to Harvey Milk, The Crusade of Connor Stephens, Vincent, Promising, Bedbugs the Musical, Breakfast with Mugabe, F#%king Up Everything, Sistas the Musical, Bronte: A Portrait of Charlotte, Ten Chimneys, The Duchess of Malfi, How to be a Good Italian Daughter, Milk, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Into the Hazard (Henry 5), The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, Jeff Daniels’ Apartment 3A. Lisa is also a professor of practice focusing in theatre management at the University of Florida and served as the BFA theatre management program director at the University of Miami from 2013-2018. She was the founding producing director for Miami New Drama, a regional theatre that produces and manages the 400 seat historic Colony Theatre on Miami Beach. Lisa also served as the resident general manager for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals from 2008-2018. Prior to forming LDK Productions, Lisa was on staff at the New 42nd Street, Manhattan Theatre Club, Symphony Space, American Repertory Theatre, and New York Stage & Film. LDK ProductionsExecutive Producer / General Manager
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Bio Coming Soon! Holly ReissExecutive Producer (UK)
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News
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Eleri Ward, Morgan Siobhan Green, More to Star in Reincarnation Blues Concert!
The presentation will take place on Monday, March 31 at Drom (85 Avenue A) in NYC. Tickets at DROMNYC.com Read more at Playbill and BroadwayWorld! PLUS, LISTEN BELOW for a sneak peek at one of the songs from the show, "PROCESSION OF THE SOULS" feat. Eleri Ward |
Video: Eleri Ward Sings 'Procession of the Souls'
Watch a new video of Eleri Ward performing "Procession of the Souls" from the new musical Reincarnation Blues! Read more about it and the 3/31 concert at DROM NYC by Clicking Here! Video produced by Adventure We Can Director & Editor: Crystal Arnette 1st Assistant Camera: Aiko Tanaka 
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