Resume

 

COMPOSER/CO-LIBRETTIST*

 

Scaramouche               

Table Read, NYC (Director, Gabriel Barre)   2023

Song: Across the Seven Continents

New Sounds of the Season (Next Stage Co. Virtual Concert)  2020

Abyssinia

Lyric Stage (Majestic Theatre) Dallas TX 2020

Hackney Empire Theatre, London (Industry Reading) 2017
Goodspeed Musicals (Mainstage) 2005
North Shore Music Theatre 2005
Lyric Stage, Dallas TX 2001
North Shore Music Theatre 1995
Cleveland Playhouse 1991
Arena Stage 1988
Goodspeed Musicals/Norma Terris Theatre 1987-88

 

The Age Of Innocence (in collaboration with Walter Holland)

New York Film Academy (Stage Reading) 2019

Florida Festival of New Musicals 2017

The Pitch/Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival 2012
York Theatre (Stage Reading) 2009-2010

Jolson: A New Vaudeville
Penguin Studio Theatre (NYC) 2003

Crazy Love (Musical Revue)
Contributed two songs
Wonderama Theater (OK) 2001-02
Old Town Theater (VA) 2001-02

My Antonia
(Adapted and Directed by Scott Schwartz)
Underscoring and Incidental Music
York Theatre 1997

Shrinks! A Musical Revue (by Nicky Silver)
Contributed three songs
San Diego, CA 1996
Washington, DC 1995

* in collaboration with James Racheff, unless otherwise noted

DANCE MUSIC ARRANGER
Sayonara
Paper Mill Playhouse 1987
Performance tape available in Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives

Other credits available upon request 

 

MUSIC DIRECTOR/KEYBOARD
Happy Hunting
Opening Doors Theatre Company 2011

Drat! The Cat!
Opening Doors Theatre Company  2010

Fiorello!
New York Historical Society 2010

Subways Are For Sleeping
Opening Doors Theatre Company 2009

I Love My Wife
Opening Doors Theatre Company 2009

Try To Remember (Rita Gardner’s one-woman show) 2000

Destry Rides Again
York Theater 1999

Into the Woods (Demo)
Neal Meron & Craig Zadan, Producers 1997

Romance, Romance
Alabama Shakespeare Festival 1991

Goodspeed Musicals Assistant Music Director 1989-90

Paper Mill Playhouse Assistant Music Director 1986-87

She-cago Chicago, Il. 1983
(Music Coordinator/Assistant to Cy Coleman)

My One and Only
St. James Theatre, NYC (Pianist) 1983

Barnum
St. James Theatre, NYC 1980-82
(Associate Conductor/Box Pianist)

I Love My Wife
National Tour (Onstage Pianist) 1979-80

I Love My Wife
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC (Onstage Pianist Stand-by)   1977-79

Other regional theatre credits include COST tour, Theater Virginia, Meadow Brook Theatre

EDUCATOR
Guest Professor
Goodspeed Musicals 2005
Course: Musical Theatre Intensive

Associate Professor
Long Island University/Department of Communication, Performance, and Theatre 2004-05
Courses: Acting for Musical Theatre/Communication Through Performance

Vocal Coach/ Music Director/Adjunct
NYU Department of Music and Performing Arts
In association with Prof. Jack Allison 1997-99
Course: Musical Theatre Performance Technique

Vocal Coach
USC at Irvine, Satellite Program 1997-99
Course: Musical Theatre Performance Technique

AWARDS
ASCAP Production Award/Popular Award 1987-2011, 2013-15, 2017-23
Meet The Composer (Featured Artist) 2005
New Jersey Council of the Arts Fellowship Grant 1990
Richard Rodgers Production Award (Abyssinia/finalist) 1986