More About Bill Sherman

A native of Long Island, New York, Bill Sherman won the 2008 Tony Award for "Best Orchestration" for In the Heights. That same year, he took home his first Grammy Award as the co-producer of the In The Heights Original Broadway Cast Album. In 2011, Sherman received his first Emmy Award for "Outstanding Original Song—Children's and Animation" for Sesame Street's "What I Am." In 2014 and 2018, respectively, Bill took home an Emmy Award in the same category for Sesame Street's "The Power of Yet" and "A Song About Songs" featuring Sia. In 2023, Bill was awarded the Emmy for outstanding original song for “Life is Sweet”, a song he co-wrote with Jennifer Nettles for PBS' "American Anthems." He produced the Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Album with The Roots for Atlantic Records, for which he won a 2016 Grammy Award. Nominations include a 2009 nod for "Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music" for the theme music to AMC's Storymakers. For more than six years, Bill Sherman has also co-hosted the Webby and NAACP Image Award-winning Questlove Supreme podcast.

Sherman has served as executive music producer for In the Heights for Warner Brothers Pictures, directed by Jon Chu, and Tick, Tick, Boom for Netflix, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, a fellow Wesleyan University alum. He is a proud member of Broadway's premier Hip Hop, improv and comedy group, Freestyle Love Supreme that traveled to the Aspen, Edinburgh, Melbourne and Montreal comedy festivals. Bill Sherman is based in the New York area where he is raising two daughters and a dog.

Bill Sherman and his work have been profiled in The New York Times, Billboard and Spin, as well as on NBC's The Today Show, NPR, CBS, CNN, and more.