GET THE
RIGHT PEOPLE
IN the ROOM.
FIND THE HUMANITY.
BUILD SOMETHING.

Right now, I’m driven — artistically, professionally, and personally — by a sense of urgency. To stay grateful. To be present. And to create art that unflinchingly rekindles joy, empathy, and respect for our shared humanity.

IN DEVELOPMENT

  • FINDING BEDFORD FALLS is a funny, deeply human ensemble drama that subverts the nostalgia of classic holiday films while exploring reinvention, grief, belonging, and the courage to care for one another written by VP Boyle.

    FINDING BEDFORD FALLS

    When an ICE raid guts her hometown's production of It's a Wonderful Life, a disgraced Broadway actress weaponizes her own sex scandal to bring her leading lady home — forcing everyone to decide whether they're the Bedford Falls they worship or the Pottersville they deny.



  • Oscuro is an eclectic, genre-bending mashup of Classic Rock, Jazz, Latin Lounge, Burlesque, Electronica, Musical Theatre, Vaudeville and Cabaret Noir with an immersive spin. The show is set in a dystopian Mexican cantina on Die de los Muertos.

    OSCURO

    Oscuro is an eclectic, genre-bending cabaret noir experience. A dead man comes back from the grave on The Day of The Dead to solve his own murder in an intoxicating show that blurs the line between rock concert, cabaret noir and immersive theatre set in a dystopian Mexican cantina.

  • Created with Pamela Bob and Mark Fifer, The Twisted Christmas Show is a fast, funny and unapologetic roast of the holiday madness. It’s an irreverent musical romp where Saturday Night Live meets Bad Santa with a naughty dose of Magic Mike.

    THE TWISTED CHRISTMAS SHOW

    Created with Pamela Bob and Mark Fifer, The Twisted Christmas Show is a fast, funny and unapologetic roast of the holiday madness. It’s an irreverent musical romp where Saturday Night Live meets Bad Santa with a naughty dose of Magic Mike.

  • STRING LIGHTS is an award-winning screenplay featuring a soul-searching ensemble drama that blends theatrical flair, grounded magical realism, anime-inspired fantasy, and eclectic musical environments written by VP Boyle.

    STRING LIGHTS

    As a brutal snowstorm brings the country to a standstill, a group of wildly imperfect strangers collide across cities and timelines — grappling with purpose, grief, and reinvention — until they discover that what feels like the end of the road might just be the start of something brighter.

  • Desert Dream is a rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream set at Burning Man. This rowdy mashup of classic Shakespearean text against '90’s alternative rock hits features a small gender nonconforming cast.

    DESERT DREAM

    Desert Dream is a rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set at Burning Man. This rowdy mashup of classic Shakespearean text against '90s alternative rock hits features a small, queer-positive and gender nonconforming cast in a lush, immersive venue.

VP Boyle is a director and writer working across theatre, film and live entertainment. His career spans more than 30 years at the intersection of actors, music and story. With roots in contemporary musical theatre and pop/rock performance, he brings an irreverent sensibility to character-driven stories and immersive worlds.

Boyle wrote and directed the Academy Award-qualifying musical short It Is What It Is and the award-winning shorts Lifeless and Gingerbread House. His theatre directing includes the West Coast production of Roar: She’s a Hero. She Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. He co-created and directed The Twisted Christmas Show with Pamela Bob and Mark Fifer for The Green Room 42 in New York City, bringing his appetite for irreverent musical storytelling to the holiday season.

For Carnival Entertainment, he created and directed Dear Future Husband, an interactive pop musical that carries its wedding story beyond the stage and into a celebration with the audience. The production has expanded across the Carnival fleet, and he continues to develop original entertainment for the company.

His development work has also included musical projects featuring the music of Fall Out Boy and Lady Gaga. Immersive experiences in development include Oscuro: Everyone Wears a Mask, an immersive, choose-your-own-ending musical set in a dystopian cantina on Día de Muertos; and Desert Dream, a rock musical reimagining of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set at Burning Man and driven by ’90s alternative music.

His current writing slate includes Finding Bedford Falls, an ensemble feature screenplay set in a Vermont community theatre where a Christmas production collides with an ICE raid; and String Lights, a stylized ensemble feature drama exploring loss, disappointment and the ways people survive one another.

As Creative Director of LiveRead@SDA at USC, Boyle brought writers, composers and performers together to develop new contemporary musicals. His approach is direct: find the humanity, get talented people into a room and build something that connects with an audience.

Through his coaching company, MaxTheatrix, he has spent decades preparing Broadway performers for the audition room and is the author of Audition Freedom: The Irreverent Wellness Guide for Theatre People.

He lives in New York City with his French Bulldog, Betty.

Affiliations: Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), SAG-AFTRA, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), Directors Guild of America (DGA), Educational Theatre Association (EdTA), Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance and Commercial Theater Institute.

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REPRESENTATION

Shelli Margheritis
Independent Artist Entertainment
shelli@iartistent.com
(310) 955-1082