a bit about music directing and me
Services:
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Teaching and accompanying for classes, playing for auditions and shows: starting $40/hr
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Piano tracks of songs/audition cuts, and piano and vox teaching tracks:
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16-32 bar audition cut: $10-15
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Full song: $15-30
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Just a teaching track: $15
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Teaching track/plunk AND piano track: $30
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Transcriptions: Pay per minute needed to transcribe (ideally $30-60)
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Other skills you can ask me about: MainStage patch changes and basic concert building, piano/vocal score maintenance and cleanup, and more
I am a music director who cares, provides resources and pays attention to the details. I also understand the value of empowering musicians and singers to trust themselves, and discover strong choices that only they can make for themselves.
I bring my background as a writer, actor, musician, singer and multi-instrumentalist to these positions. I have training in musical theatre, opera, and pop/rock styles, and skills in vocal directing, piano conducting for MT pop/rock pits, music assisting/copy work, playing piano and Keys 2 parts and working knowledge of my own practice in songwriting, guitar and ukulele. I'm especially energized by working on new musicals and assisting a composer's process.
As a music teacher working with youth, I love being there for the theatre nerds who have passion for learning more and being challenged, the kids new to theatre who can be sponges and learn so much and especially the wallflowers who don't even know their own power yet.
Covers
Arranging My Life: A Senior Cabaret
In spring 2021, I wrote and performed a solo virtual cabaret featuring original poetry, music arrangements, dialogues about my life, and more. The audio from that night was recorded professionally by Daniel Erickson and graduate assistants from the Greenberg/Katzen team at American University. I'm very proud to present the live album and full cabaret here!
Director's Note on A Living Newspaper Project: when a crisis hits home
Through this project, inspired by Living Newspapers like One Third of a Nation, we talked to AU students and alumni to uncover stories of young people affected by the housing and eviction crisis amidst COVID-19. Our nation has failed the people who are about to become the nation. As AU students ourselves, it feels like the crisis hits home and we can tell students’ stories. We also asked about how they found help, providing resources to housing support and COVID-19 relief assistance at the end of our virtual monologue book. Looking back on our work, I know that this is just the beginning, and there are many people in this country still facing evictions in the new year. It remains essential that their voices are heard. Thinking ahead to what’s possible in 2021, I have cautious hope of a better tomorrow for all those who need a home and comfort in these dark times. View more about The Living Newspaper.
A Call For A New Federal Theatre Project
Throughout the fall 2020 semester, I worked on my senior theatre capstone, where I explored lots of firsts: engaging in playwriting and documentary theatre research inspired by Living Newspapers like One-Third of a Nation by Arthur Arent, developing original arrangements to turn "Nickel Under The Foot" and "Gus and Sadie Love Song" from The Cradle Will Rock into ensemble songs and editing vocal parts together, and directing and music directing my fellow peers. Here are some of the projects that I was involved in!
![all in the right time: “Nickel under [Our] Foot”](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E_9UmHPOgTE/maxresdefault.jpg)