Bandits on the Run

Bandits on the Run are a musical trio from the Brooklyn-Queens border. Born from a chance encounter busking on the subway, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd, and Regina Strayhorn defy convention with an impressive trade-off of lead vocals and instruments. The Bandits marry acoustic, electric, and bass guitar sounds with cello, accordion, suitcases-turned-kickdrums, and (if you’re lucky) sometimes even a megaphone.

 

The Bandit’s three-part harmonies have been heard filling iconic venues while opening forThe Wood Brothers’ 2025 East Coast tour, on the main stages at Colorado’s RockyMount Folks Fest and Michigan’s Blissfest, and in a sold out residency at Manhattan’sBowery Electric. Their songs have been featured by NPR’s Tiny Desk and The MothStory Slam, as well as in Netflix’s Ask the Story Bots and the feature film The Same Storm. The Bandits tour nationally and internationally, with appearances at Cambridge Folk Festival, Floydfest, Summerfest Milwaukee, Americanafest, F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Mile of Music, and more.

Their theatrical indie-folk lends itself quite well to storytelling and their work adapting text for a musical production of As You Like It later became their EP The Shakespeare Tapes.

 

In addition to all their touring and recording work, Bandits on the Run are also in the business of writing musicals, sometimes as a trio and sometimes with collaborators. They are currently creating the stage musical adaptation of the novel What’s EatingGilbert Grape with actor-musician-longtime friend Christopher Sears and new found friend Academy Award Nominee Peter Hedges, supported by MCC Theater. Bandits on the Run are also developing an original musical, Yukon Ho, about a group of Black prospectors in the Alaskan gold rush, Yukon Ho was researched on the ground in Skagway, Alaska with support from the NEA, and has been workshopped with support from Prospect Musicals. They are alumni of several musical theater writing development programs, including Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and theJohnny Mercer Songwriters Grove at Goodspeed Musicals.

 

Adrian, Sydney, and Regina bring their individual corners of the creative universe in to the room when they collaborate. Adrian Blake Enscoe made their Broadway debut in The Avett Brothers’Swept Away in 2024 and can be seen playing Austin Dickinson in the Apple TV+ SeriesDickinson.Sydney Shepherd was most recently seen in the 2025 world premiere of The Ruins at the Guthrie Theater. Regina Strayhorn also works in casting, bringing to life shows for HBO, Amazon, Apple TV, CBS & Hulu, as well as a freelance photographer.