About

Barbara Oleynick is a writer, composer, lyricist, and published author. Her portfolio includes comedies, dramas, dramadies, interactive, therapeutic, family shows, historical, short stories, long novels, and screenplays.  Currently she is on the faculty in both the English and Music Departments at the University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

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Some of her credits include:

Everyday Miracles – 1991 Family musical - Produced multiple times

Aladdin! – 1993 original musical - Produced multiple times​

​Sing a Song of Sixpence – 1995 dramady stage adaptation of Safe Enough to Remember - workshopped

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The Miracle of Fatima musical - 1999  is her NYU Tisch School of Arts master thesis (1999) Graduate Writing Musical Theater Program.

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Blessed is Her Name – 2000 screenplay turned into novel about the History and Divine Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the works by the Venerable 16th Century nun Sister Mary of Agreda

​The History of Connecticut – a musical review 1994 (endorse