Oliver

Winner of the inaugural Stephen Schwartz Award, the ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award and a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, Oliver Houser has headlined at the Kennedy Center and presented his musicals at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, London's Other Palace Theatre, Seattle's Village Theatre and beyond. Oliver’s original musical, XY, inspired by his journey to embrace his identity as an intersex man, was optioned by the Tony Award-winning producers of Broadway’s Come From Away and Memphis. www.oliverhouser.com.

Reviews for Create Your Theme Song:

"Oliver was wonderful and is so talented!!! The entire experience was great from start to finish. We are a somewhat new team, and the exercise really allowed us to explore what we love about our team, the work we do and how we like and respect each other as colleagues. We definitely bonded yesterday!!” — Melonie, Microsoft Compliance Accessibility & Quality Team

“WOW!! What an incredible experience! As a business owner and broker of a small team of 18 real estate agents, we are always looking for ways to do team-building activities to strengthen our culture. At our end-of-year Team Advance, we decided to bring in Oliver and his talents to help us build our team’s “theme song.” This exercise in and of itself was very engaging and fulfilling. We laughed and had a blast writing our theme song! At the end, Oliver sang it back to us while playing his keyboard. It was magical!! We opted for a professional recording as a reminder and filter for new team members coming in; that “We’re the Schiff Home Team, we are hungry, humble and smart...” !! Thank you Oliver!!” — Michael, the Schiff Home Team

“WOW, that song and your amazing voice & music were an absolute hit! I cannot believe you created that in one hour. Our CEO had the biggest smile on her face!" — Sally, Events Manager at Articulate

“My team had a blast writing a song with Oliver. There’s nothing quite like coming up with rhymes about yourself with your coworkers. We all got into it and everyone contributed a lyric. Now we have an epic team theme song to use self-indulgently as an intro to all our meetings.” — Jackson, The Bandcamp GOAT Team

“Oliver came into the event with so much enthusiasm and warmth and made our entire team feel welcome and heard during the creative process. We weren’t sure what we were going to get, but we’re very happy with the process and the product! 10/10 experience!” — Elizabeth, Program Manager at Coworker

“Thank you for a wonderful event! Everyone at LaL was delighted with the experience, and I hope you took that away from the chat messages at the end, as well as all the smiling faces while you worked. You were so engaging, and also diplomatic. And we very much appreciated your professionalism and follow up throughout the engagement process.” — Elayne, Learning as Leadership