Neil is best known as the co-writer of Disney’s Bedknobs & Broomsticks, for which he added new songs and expanded the classic Sherman Brothers score. This new stage adaptation toured the UK and Ireland in 2021-2022.
Neil is also the composer and lyricist of Broadway’s The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill (4 Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Music, Lyrics, and Musical). His musical The Theory of Relativity had its US premiere at Goodspeed Musicals in 2015 with its Off-West End premiere in the same year. The Theory of Relativity now has a robust life in licensing and was MTI’s most-produced title in 2021. It also generated the TikTok and YouTube viral sensation, “The End of The Line.”
Other works include an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, YPT Toronto), a musical adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs (Canadian tour), a musical based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes (11 Barrymore Award nominations), You Are Here (Off-West End), and currently in development, Senza Luce. Neil’s new score for the stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love was written for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Asolo Rep productions and was nominated for a Jeff Award.
Other awards include the ASCAP Foundation’s Yellen Award, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship and a Dora Award.
