Jay Turvey
Pronouns: He/Him
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Website: https://www.jaypaulproject.com
Agent: Colin Rivers
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Photographer: David Cooper
Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli collaborated with other artists on Little Mercy’s First Murder (co-lyricist/book writer Morwyn Brebner) and Step Right Up! (co-lyricist/book writer Eric Woolfe)
Together they have co-written the song cycle Nobody Told Me (Berkeley Street Theatre), Tristan (Shaw Festival), Maria Severa (Shaw Festival, Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Theater, Poland), Oracle (Summerworks), Erik with a K (CMTP Sheridan), 33 1/3 (CMTP Sheridan, Dobama, Cleveland, winner of PGC Best New Musical).
For the Shaw Festival they co-conceived and adapted The Next Whisky Bar, featuring the music of Kurt Weill, Gatsby’s Jazz, Sonny’s Blues, featuring works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Baldwin and 1922. Their adaptation of The Secret Garden, a play with songs, is on stage at The Shaw Festival in 2024 and is also directed by Jay. Jay has directed plays and musicals in Toronto and regional theatre. He is also an actor.