Selda Sahin

Biography

Selda Sahin wrote original songs for the feature film "American Reject" in collaboration with Derek Gregor. Additionally, their musical "Modern", about a group of Amish teens on their Rumspringa was developed in 2019 at The Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals, the ASCAP Grow a Show Workshop, and the NYC Stephen Schwarz ASCAP workshop. The work received further development at the Bloomington Playwrights Project in February 2022. With Autumn Reeser and Derek Gregor, Sahin is developing a new musical, "Particle", which saw its original development at the Imagen program at Michigan State University in 2021. Sahin wrote the lyrics to the musical short film Grind starring Anthony Rapp. Her musical "All Fall Down" (music and lyrics) was developed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Penn State NuMusicals, and TheatreLab. She wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book to the children’s musical He Said/She Said, which toured the Northeast in 2017.