don chaffer 

• songwriting i
• songwriting ii
• identity & artistry
• singer-songwriter ensemble
• internships
• director of commercial ensembles

• songwriting
• record production
• music theater (book, music, lyrics)
• entrepreneurship
• long-form creative non-fiction

writing

the voice (thomas nelson)

several poems, or short stories (molehill journal)

theatre

sparkley clean funeral singers, published by concord theatricals.

• squint entertainment as recording artist
• previous staff songwriter for simpleville music- multiple album cuts, radio singles, film & tv syncs, etc

music

don chaffer — 25+ albums released as recording artist; 75+ albums produced as record producer (partial credits include: indigo girls, caitlyn smith, sara groves, matthew perryman jones, katie herzig, matt wertz, andrew peterson, sandra mccracken, robbie seay, jami smith, steven delopoulos, geoff moore, andrew osenga, maeve, sevenglory, natalie larue, pawn shop kings, remedy drive, the swift, tricia brock, attaboy.); songwriting on dozens of albums (partial credits include: third day, bebo norman, all sons & daughters, big daddy weave, katie herzig, nathan tasker, jennie lee riddle, addison road, jenny simmons, chasen, christopher williams, eddie kirkland)

theatre

don chaffer theatre — music, lyrics, and/or book for 8 musicals, 3 plays with music or one-acts, 2 theatrical revues; tv: slugs & bugs show.

• ascap award (“wicked web”), 1999
• radio and records song of the year award (“you are so good to me”), 2003
• ascap award (“what life would be like”), 2008
• new directors new works grant, the drama league, 2010
• yale institute for musical theater finalist, 2011
• eugene o’neill music theater conference (waterford, ct) participant, 2011
• georgia bogardus holof lyricist award, 2011 richard rodgers award finalist, 2011
• richard rodgers award finalist, 2012
• spark and echo arts (nyc, ny) new one-act musical commission, 2014
• bespoke musical festival (nyc, ny) new one-act musical commission, 2014
• pacific theatre (vancouver, bc) new musical commission, 2014
• eugene o’neill music theater conference (waterford, ct) semi-finalist, 2017
• eugene o’neill music theater conference (waterford, ct) semi-finalist, 2019
• river & rail theatre co. (knoxville, tn) new musical commission, 2019
• river & rail theatre co. (knoxville, tn) upcoming new musical commission, 2020
• wedgewood circle’s goodlit retreat (stanford, ky) selected participant, 2020