asher raduns-silverstein
Voice Part: Tenor
Class: 2023
Major: Biology
Solos: Stronger (The Score), Good 4 u (Olivia Rodrigo), Amsterdam (nothing but thieves), Pink Lemonade (YVA), She’s on the brain (Harry Styles, Rihanna)
As I sat down to write this detailed biography on the life of Off The Beat’s longest-serving member and resident Olivia Rodrigo impersonator, I realized how little I knew about Asher’s life before Penn. So, I did what any reasonable person would do and stalked him on the internet. What I found did not disappoint. First up: Facebook. Apart from Aunt Sandra wishing Asher a yearly happy birthday and numerous high-school-age photos of Asher doing what I can only presume is attempting to be cool, I learned that Asher has looked more or less the same age as he does now since at least 2016. Next, YouTube. Believe it or not, I discovered that Asher has a channel, with 1 subscriber, 2 theatre audition monologues (worth the watch), and Manny’s Off The Beat audition video. Finally, I found a weirdly detailed article about Asher’s ambitions after high school. Excited to be heading off to Penn in the fall, Asher reported that “I want to be in theatre, I want to play club baseball, and I want to be on a pre-med track.” Well, either Asher was cut from the club baseball team or so enthralled by Penn Arts that he never looked back, but one way or another Asher ended up in OTB instead, and I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that we’re very lucky to have him. We love you Asher, break a leg tonight not screaming for the first time in your OTB career.
“I was a child model for Spirit Halloween Store. Check out their catalog if you don’t believe me!”
“My favorite artists are Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, and The Arctic Monkeys.”
“I chose OTB because this is exactly the group of people I want to spend too much time with and exactly the type of music I can really get into.”