Emerging Composer-Lyricists: A Multi-Skilled Panel
Join Maestra's Composer/Lyricist Affinity Group for a virtual panel on balancing the many aspects of a creative musical theater career and forging your unique path, with three Maestras who are doing just that: Grace McLean, Rona Siddiqui, and Victoria Theodore!
The hour will be hosted by the Composer/Lyricist Group Moderators Koryn Orcutt and Pearl Rhein, who will interview the three guests and moderate audience Q&A.
Grace McLean (she/her) is an award winning actor, writer and composer working in theater, film and TV, is currently performing on Broadway in SUFFS and released her first full length album “My Lovely Enemy” earlier this year with Rolling Stone calling her “avant-garde” tracks “brilliant”.
Victoria Theodore is an acclaimed pianist who has performed with luminary artists such as Stevie Wonder, Beyoncé, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Ariana Debose. Victoria is also a composer, arranger and lyricist. She is co-composer for the new musicals “MARIAN” and “Co-Founders”, pianist for the Oscar-winning film “CODA”, an actor in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Tick, Tick…BOOM!”, and an on-stage performer in the improvisational hip-hop show "Freestyle Love Supreme." She is a published author, has 2 Bachelor’s degrees from Oberlin College / Conservatory, a Masters degree from Stanford University, and is co-founder of her band, EnSPirits. Victoria is also a motivational speaker, yogi, dancer and polyglot.
Grammy-nominated artist Rona Siddiqui is a composer/lyricist based in NYC. Awards: Kleban Prize, Jonathan Larson Grant and Billie Burke Ziegfeld. Shows: Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, One Good Day, Hip Hop Cinderella, The Tin. Commissions: A More Perfect Union (Arena Stage), Kirdle & Miffins: Curiosity Saved the Cats (Keen Teens), Untitled Play (Noor Theatre Company). Music Direction: Broadway: A Strange Loop (Obie Winner and Grammy nominee), Off-Broadway: Bella: An American Tall Tale, Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War. Orchestration: Monsoon Wedding, An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake, Broadway Records, Broadway Backwards. Faculty member: BerkleeNYC, New York University.
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