Jay Alan Zimmerman, aka “Broadway’s Beethoven,” is a composer, author, performer, inventor, speaker, installation artist and accessibility advocate. He created and starred in the musicals BRAIN. STORM. (commissioned and produced by Prospect Theater Company) and the award-winning INCREDIBLY DEAF MUSICAL (Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater and Duke on 42nd Street); wrote the play COMFORT PET for a cast of Disabled actors (Fault Line Theater); debuted ROBOTICUS with a collective of musical robots at Spotify; developed the SEEING MUSIC VISUALIZERS with Google Creative Labs; and has a patent pending on hearing visualization. Visual music installations include WINDOW MUSIC at the NY Academy of Medicine and ART/SONG at chashama Times Square. His NAUGHTY & NICE HOLIDAY SONGBOOK was developed through over a decade of annual debuts at Lincoln Center and is now available on Amazon. He's been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Playbill, Broadway World, The New Yorker, Voice Of America, and WNYC/NPR/BBC Radio.