Zev Burrows is a composer and lyricist for stage and screen. With his original compositions regularly featured on major network and cable television channels including PBS, Netflix, NBC, BBC, and ABC, his latest film work includes the lyrics of the song “Inner Forces”, featured in the documentary “Unconditional”, and the score for the Gallery Players’ feature film production of “Macbeth”. He received his Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music, and has composed the scores for many award-winning projects, including the animated short film “Fox Tale” (finalist for 2015 CG Student Awards Best Film of the Year), and the Directors Guild of America award-winning short film “Absent” directed by Sudarshan Suresh. A graduate of many acclaimed industry workshops and programs (ASCAP, BMI, Dramatists Guild, SCL), he has provided additional music/orchestrations for the feature documentary “Sky Blossom“, directed by MSNBC news anchor Richard Lui. In 2018, Zev also composed original music for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Online Course Development.
For his work in musical theatre, Zev was an inaugural member of Theatre Now‘s National Musical Writers Group and is currently developing the new musical “Food For Thought” with lyricist/librettist Makena Metz, which received a reading from New Musicals Inc. in November 2023. His musical “The Pledge” was selected for the Madison New Works Lab at James Madison University for 2019, where it received a two-week workshop and two performances. A member of ASCAP, ASMAC, SCL, PMA, and the Dramatists Guild, Zev resides in New York City, where he has had the opportunity to work alongside industry luminaries such as Alan Menken, Doug Besterman, Larry Blank, John Clayton, Rob Cookman, and Ned Ginsburg. Most recently, he was the music assistant for the premiere production of "Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker", which played at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre from December 20-30, 2023.
In addition to his film and musical theatre work, Zev is also a busy composer of production library music, and regularly writes for MPATH Music Library, 4 Elements Music, Mibe Music, Atomica Music Library, and Velvet Green Music, where he was the featured artist for May 2017 and May 2019. When he’s not composing, he’s actively teaching music in private lessons, and has taught all ages in multiple levels of guitar, bass guitar, drums, piano, mandolin, banjo, and music theory.