Jeff Bienstock was born in Santa Monica, California and has a Masters in Composition from NYU Steinhardt. His first full-length musical, The Morning After / The Night Before, was produced in the 2010 NYC Fringe Festival and enjoyed a sold-out run at the Lucille Lortel Theater, also winning a Best-of-Fest Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.
In 2011, Jeff and collaborators Eric March and Patrick Link received a Sloan Foundation Grant to create The Bone Wars, an evolutionary new musical that premiered at The Ensemble Studio Theater in 2012. That same year, Jeff was invited to participate in the prestigious Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project at Northwestern University, where he was mentored by Broadway notables Craig Carnelia and Andrew Lippa. He also met Andrea Daly, a talented songwriter and future collaborator. "Dorks, Drunks, Dinosaurs: The Songs of Jeff Bienstock,” a showcase of Jeff's musical and lyrical talents, premiered at the Laurie Beechman Theater in 2013.
Later that year, Jeff and Andrea were invited to East Haddam, CT for a two-week residency at the world-famous Goodspeed Musicals organization. At the end of this stay, they presented their peers with an informal reading of the first act of Legendale, an original musical comedy about life, love, and video games. A full reading was staged in October 2014 at Ripley Grier Studios, with direction by Marlo Hunter and musical direction by Ian Axness. Legendale was selected to be one of eight shows presented at the National Alliance of Musical Theater (NAMT) 2015 Annual Festival of New Musicals, and was presented at Stephen Schwartz's ASCAP Workshop the following year. It received its world premiere at Denmark's Fredericia Teater in March of 2017, and its American premiere at Dayton, Ohio's Human Race Theatre in September of the same year.
In 2018, Jeff was approached by his mentor and former NYC professor, Joseph Church, to co-create a parody of Broadway Jukebox Bio-Musicals. One worldwide pandemic later, Who Is Jimmy Pants? had its triumphant Off-Broadway premiere at the York Theater in March 2025, with direction by Stephen Nachamie and music direction by Benjamin Weiss. The cast featured Steven Booth, Kirsten Scott, and Tony nominee David Garrison, and was later nominted for seven Off-Broadway Awards by BroadwayWorld, including Best New Musical and Best Book.
Jeff is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He currently lives in Brooklyn and would be hard pressed to leave.
In 2011, Jeff and collaborators Eric March and Patrick Link received a Sloan Foundation Grant to create The Bone Wars, an evolutionary new musical that premiered at The Ensemble Studio Theater in 2012. That same year, Jeff was invited to participate in the prestigious Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project at Northwestern University, where he was mentored by Broadway notables Craig Carnelia and Andrew Lippa. He also met Andrea Daly, a talented songwriter and future collaborator. "Dorks, Drunks, Dinosaurs: The Songs of Jeff Bienstock,” a showcase of Jeff's musical and lyrical talents, premiered at the Laurie Beechman Theater in 2013.
Later that year, Jeff and Andrea were invited to East Haddam, CT for a two-week residency at the world-famous Goodspeed Musicals organization. At the end of this stay, they presented their peers with an informal reading of the first act of Legendale, an original musical comedy about life, love, and video games. A full reading was staged in October 2014 at Ripley Grier Studios, with direction by Marlo Hunter and musical direction by Ian Axness. Legendale was selected to be one of eight shows presented at the National Alliance of Musical Theater (NAMT) 2015 Annual Festival of New Musicals, and was presented at Stephen Schwartz's ASCAP Workshop the following year. It received its world premiere at Denmark's Fredericia Teater in March of 2017, and its American premiere at Dayton, Ohio's Human Race Theatre in September of the same year.
In 2018, Jeff was approached by his mentor and former NYC professor, Joseph Church, to co-create a parody of Broadway Jukebox Bio-Musicals. One worldwide pandemic later, Who Is Jimmy Pants? had its triumphant Off-Broadway premiere at the York Theater in March 2025, with direction by Stephen Nachamie and music direction by Benjamin Weiss. The cast featured Steven Booth, Kirsten Scott, and Tony nominee David Garrison, and was later nominted for seven Off-Broadway Awards by BroadwayWorld, including Best New Musical and Best Book.
Jeff is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He currently lives in Brooklyn and would be hard pressed to leave.