photo: Austin Huck (Hive Studio)
Jeffrey Song…
[he/him]… is a musician, composer, singer, actor, visual artist, and scientist. Regional acting credits include Assassins and Pacific Overtures (Lyric Stage Boston), Wild Goose Dreams and Once (SpeakEasy Stage), Henry VI, Part 3 (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, online production), The 49th Christmas Revels (Revels of Boston), Nomad Americana (Fresh Ink Theatre), Memorial (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Pinocchio (Wheelock Family Theatre), Astro Boy and the God of Comics (Company One), and Wild Swans (American Repertory Theater). He can also be heard on the NPR storytelling podcast Circle Round. Credits as Composer/Music Director include Vietgone (Studio Theatre, DC) and Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), and he was the music consultant for the Imagination Stage (DC) production of The Ballad of Mulan. Jeff has performed at various music festivals around the globe, and has appeared on over a dozen recordings - his original music featured on radio, television, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. As bassist for Ute Lemper (Punishing Kiss European tour), he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, L’Opéra de Vichy, and The Palermo Festival Di Verdura. A New England Foundation for the Arts grant recipient, Jeff holds an MM from New England Conservatory of Music. Jeff is also a research scientist with over 25 years of experience as a cell biologist and biochemist in drug-discovery, focusing on the research and development of biotechnology-derived therapeutics for multiple disease areas including oncology, inflammation and metabolic disease. He is a co-author on several scientific patents, and more than fifteen peer-reviewed scientific papers. As a visual artist, he works in several media, and has been developing a series of digital images titled MusicaMorte.
Research Science Publications
Published 2021 in Cancer Cell - PARP7 negatively regulates the type I interferon response in cancer cells and its inhibition triggers antitumor immunity.
Links
The Front Porch Arts Collective: The Front Porch Arts Collective is a new black-led theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theater.