Robbie Sherman
| Robert J. Sherman | |
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Sherman in 2003
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Robert Jason Sherman |
| Born |
July 16, 1968 Los Angeles, California, US |
| Genres | Musical theatre |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, composer, lyricist, librettist, producer, businessman |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | SimG Records |
| Website | www |
Robert Jason Sherman (born July 16, 1968) is an American songwriter and businessman based in London. He was born in Los Angeles to Joyce and Robert B. Sherman, the youngest of four siblings. Stemming from a long line of songwriters and composers, spanning more than four generations, at 16 Sherman became one of the youngest songwriters ever invited to join BMI and is an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He is perhaps best known for his work on Love Birds: The Musical which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Born and raised in Beverly Hills, California, Sherman attended Beverly Hills Presbyterian Preschool then Hawthorne Elementary School. In grade six, Sherman wrote the Hawthorne School song. In eighth grade he was voted student body president. At Beverly Hills High School Sherman joined the madrigal singers and the marching band. In his senior year, Sherman became the band's drum major and composed the graduation song, "Let Time Stand Still". During his high school years Sherman won two "Awards of Distinction" at the Los Angeles Student Film Festival for two of his short film musicals respectively: Dog of Darkness (1983) and The Magic Tuba (1984). Sherman did his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television with an emphasis in screenwriting. At USC, Sherman was initiated into the Tau Gamma chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity. He received a BFA degree in Filmic Writing in 1990. In 2012 Sherman received an MA (with Merit) in Jewish Studies from King's College London.
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