Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (2024)
Kimberly Akimbo (2023)
Some art I'm grateful to be working on.
Recent
- November 3-18, 2024 — Minneapolis, MN — Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria is developed at a workshop sponsored by Theatre Latté Da and the MAP Fund.
- November 18, 2024 — New York, NY — Awarded an Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to compose the musical suite that will become a new full-length theatrical piece, tentatively titled Searching for My Parents, by Brandy Hoang Collier, Clare Fuyuko Bierman, and me.
Upcoming
- December 18, 2024 — Tokyo, Japan — Songwriters' Showcase at Hibiya Theatre Creation sponsored by 東宝 (Toho), with Clare, presenting music from VISARE.
- January-February 2025 — East Haddam, CT — Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals, with Brandy and Clare.
- March 2025 — San Jose, Costa Rica — Casa Uno Residency.
- April-May 2025 — Vashon, WA — Vashon Artist Residency.
- Spring 2026 — TBA
- August-September 2027 — Visby, Sweden — Visby International Centre for Composers, Composer in Residence.
Ongoing
- Clare Fuyuko Bierman and I are developing a concept EP for VISARE, an immersive circus fantasia.
- Brandy Hoang Collier (book), Clare Fuyuko Bierman (lyrics), and I (music) are writing Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria. This new musical was commissioned and developed by the 5th Avenue Theatre (2021-23) and is being developed with support from the Civilians' R&D Group (2022-23), the NAMT Frank Young Fund (2023), the Orchard Project (2023), the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference (2023), the NAMT Festival of New Musicals (2023), the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (2024), the MAP Fund (2024), Theatre Latté Da (2024), and the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove (2025).
- The New Music Theatre Project has commissioned me to create a new piece of music theatre, quartet project, that explores the tension between the vibrant self and the powerful collective through the interwoven voices of four musician-storytellers.
- Accordion/Key 2 Sub for Cabaret on Broadway. MD: Meg Zervoulis Bate, AMD/Key 2: Anessa Marie.
Summer 2024
- Brandy, Clare, and I head to the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat in Pine Plains, NY to develop Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria.
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria receives an artist grant from the MAP Fund.
- Artist Residency at Butter Hill in Sharon, CT.
- Accordion/Key 2 Sub for Cabaret on Broadway. MD: Jennifer Whyte, AMD/Key 2: Meg Zervoulis Bate.
- KHORIKOS performs at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. as part of the Sound Scene Festival.
- Volunteer for the 52nd Street Project Songmaking Program.
Winter & Spring 2024
- Artist in Residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM for 3 months.
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria shares a song at the Maestra AMPLIFY Concert. An honor to share our work alongside musical theatre legends.
- Brandy, Clare, and I are among the top 25 (out of over 700) applicants for the Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship.
Late Fall 2023
- Brandy, Clare, and I are winners of the Vivace Award, one of the Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation's IDEA Awards for Theatre. A huge honor to be celebrated with Grace McLean, Jesse Jae Hoon, and Beth Henley.
- Conductor, Vocalist, and Pianist with KHORIKOS for CIVITAS. Highlight: conducting a movement from one of my favorite choral pieces, Herbert Howells's Requiem.
- Talkback panel for Classic Stage Company's production of I Can Get It For You Wholesale with Jennifer Ashley Tepper.
Early Fall 2023
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria presents 45 minutes at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) Festival of New Musicals.
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria is developed at a workshop sponsored by the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, WA.
- Key 2 Sub for Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway. MD: Chris Fenwick, AMD/Key 2: Brian Ge.
Summer 2023
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria is developed and presented at the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference in Waterford, CT.
- The Gloria writers are artists in residence at the Orchard Project Performance Lab in Saratoga Springs, NY.
- Composer Residency at the KHN Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE to work on the concept EP for VISARE.
- Key 2 Sub for Kimberly Akimbo.
Spring 2023
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria has a 29-hour reading at the National Opera Center in New York, NY, sponsored by The Civilians, 5th Ave, and NAMT's Frank Young Fund.
- STARSONG, a light puppetry work created with Andrew Strano, is produced at SOUND BITES X.
- Original Score for in her memory, a short film by director & cinematographer Mia Hagerty.
- Key 2 Sub for Kimberly Akimbo.
- Artist Residency at Aunt Karen's Farm with the Civilians' R&D Group.
Winter 2023
- Key 2 Sub for Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway. MD: Chris Fenwick, AMD/Key 2: Brian Ge.
- Artist Residency at the Butterfly House in Joshua Tree, CA with Clare, Mikey Rose, and Dahlak Brathwaite.
- Music Team for The Shrinking of Treehorn (Netflix). Music Producer: Marius de Vries.
Fall 2022
- Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria has a 29-hour reading at Playwrights Horizons in New York, NY, sponsored by the 5th Avenue Theatre.
- Brandy, Clare, and I join The Civilians' R&D Group to develop Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria.
- LUNEVÁL—an evening of reflection and collective ritual guided by artists Mikey, Brandy, Alex, and me—takes place.
- Conductor and Soloist for KHORIKOS ORTUS concert selections.
Summer 2022
- Clare and I join the 2022 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project.
- Artist Residency at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle for Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria.
- STARSONG is selected for the Chain Theatre Play Festival.
- Music Director for Mammelephant with Superhero Clubhouse. Dir: Nana Dakin.
- Music Team for Dicks: The Musical (A24). Executive Music Producer: Marius de Vries.
Spring 2022
- Artist Residency at the Mutual Aid Society Catskills for the development of a new community ritual with Mikey Rose, Brandy Hoang Collier, and Alex Becker.
- Vocalist with KHORIKOS for forthcoming studio album.
- Vocals and Additional Lyrics with Déa Thatcher for tinydesk-esque live session in Wood-Ridge, NJ.
- Music Team for workshop of new musical by Irene Mecchi. MD: Jason Michael Webb.
Winter 2022
- Composer & Music Director for Playmaking at the 52nd St Project.
- Music Director for Then She Ran and For Show at 54 Below.
- Vocalist with KHORIKOS for New Amsterdam Records at (le) poisson rouge.
- Copyist for workshop of Show & Tell by Max Vernon.
Fall 2021
- [untitled hat project], a tiny immersive experience created by Clare and me, premieres at an eclectic hatmaker's studio.
- Singer-Songwriter for From Story to Song, collaborating with Kelly Bachman. Keepsake House founders Jay & Hailey asked me some thoughtful questions here.
- Associate MD for workshop of Invincible by Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo and Bradley Bredeweg. MD/Arranger: Jesse Vargas.
- Music Director for reading of Twelve Kinds of Ice by Ben Steinfeld. Dir: Rebecca Martinez.
- Accordion & Keys for Mikey Rose & The Dumb Americans.
Summer 2021
- Music Director for the inaugural production of Scarlet Night, an immersive show that transforms Virgin Voyages's Scarlet Lady into "a menagerie of delights and euphoric exaltation" for 3,000 guests. Dir: Asher Young, Ellie Heyman.
- Assistant MD & Keys for Pippin, She Loves Me, and Man of La Mancha at the Mac-Haydn Theatre. MD: Déa Thatcher.
- Music Team for workshop of The Tattooed Lady by Max Vernon and Erin Courtney. MD: Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh.
- "Night Time Snacks" is presented at the Hidden Gems Gala, which raises over $250K for the 52nd Street Project.
Spring 2021
- STARSONG, a light puppetry work created by Andrew Strano and me, premieres Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
- "Space" is presented at Broadway's Future Songbook at Lincoln Center.
Winter 2021
- Clare Fuyuko Bierman and I are winners of the 2021 New Voices Project for songs from our immersive circus fantasia, VISARE.
