creates new works of music, theatre, and musical theatre. PSF: Original Music, Arrangements, and Additional Lyrics for Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, and Two Gentlemen of Verona – all collaborations with director Matt Pfeiffer. Off Bway: Music & Lyrics for Lightning Rod Special’s The Appointment (“Best of 2019” – The New York Times, Vulture, TimeOut NY, “Best of 2023” – The New Yorker), and music direction for Night Side Songs by the Lazours. Regional: Arrangements/Music direction for Pig Iron Theatre Co’s Poor Judge, Music & Lyrics for People’s Light & Theatre Company’s Peter Panto, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, and Shakespeare in Love, and Music/Arrangements for Arden Theatre Company’s The Light Princess. Bechtel is a graduate of The Pig Iron School and The University of the Arts. He is a 5-time Barrymore Award Winner, and a 2015 Independence Fellow in the Arts. Bechtel is the creator/composer of The West, Philadelphia Nocturne, and Cheer Up, Dostoevsky. Penelope has had concert performances at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre and Rockwood Music Hall in NYC and productions at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Signature Theatre in DC. See and hear more at alexbechtel.com.