SEAN MAYES MUSIC DIRECTOR | ORCHESTRATOR | ARRANGER | ACADEMIC
[email protected] • seanmayesmusic.com • 718 913 1930 • @SeanMayesMD AFM Local 802 • AFM Local 149
SPECIALIZED SKILLS Musical Theatre Music Direction • Music & Theatre Education Vocal Technique and Training • Instrumental & Choral Conducting • Orchestration & Arranging
TRAINING Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey Master of Arts, Music Direction (Hon. w/ Dist.) McGill University Bachelor of Music, Organ & Voice; Bachelor of Education (Music Education) Musical Theatre Conducting (Jeffrey Huard)
MUSIC DIRECTION (select) MJ: The Musical (upcoming) Assistant Conductor Broadway, Neil Simon Theatre The Color Purple Music Director & Conductor Canadian Regional Premiere COME FROM AWAY (upcoming) Music Supervisor Finnish Premiere #DateMe Deputy Keys Off-Broadway, Westside Theatre Broadway VS - Andre & Lillias Music Supervisor Broadway Advocacy Coalition Broadway For Biden Associate Music Director In Our America Divas for Democracy Associate Music Director Broadway Drag Out The Vote TINA: The Tina Turner Musical Keys 1 Substitute Broadway, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre COMPANY (upcoming) Keys 3 Substitute Broadway, Bernard Jacobs Theatre Scotland, PA Keys 2 Substitute Roundabout Theatre Up Close and Musical Music Director Stratford Festival of Canada Breathing Free Associate Music Director Heartbeat Opera Amour Music Director ArtLab; Virtual Revival Disenchanted Music Director/Pre-Pro Audio ArtLab; Broadway On Demand Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Assistant Music Director UK National Tour LOSERVILLE Music Director Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, UK Molly The Manatee Music Director 92Y, NYC The Three Musketeers Music Director St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival Antony and Cleopatra Music Director St Lawrence Shakespeare Festival Passing Strange Associate Music Director Musical Stage Company, Toronto Ocean City Pops Keyboards Ocean City Pops Orchestra Dolce Vita Music Supervisor CREATIVIVA, Turks & Caicos Alice in Wonderland Music Supervisor CREATIVIVA, Turks & Caicos A Chorus Line: In Concert Music Director Centaur Theatre, Montreal The Full Monty (Montreal Premiere) Conductor Centaur Theatre, Montreal Soul Doctor (Canadian Premiere) Assistant Music Director Segal Centre for the Performing Arts
EDUCATIONAL DIRECTION (select) Educational Artist Music Director Disney Theatrical Group Educational Artist Music Director The New York Pops Educational Artist Music Director New York City Centre Fourth Universalist Society Director of Music New York, NY Adjunct Professor Music Director Sheridan College, Canada Guest Instructor Music Director Randolph Academy for the Arts, Canada Guest Adjunct Music Director American Musical & Dramatic Academy Foundation Program Music Director Guildford School of Acting, UK Foundation Program Music Director Segal Centre for the Performing Arts
(cont’d…) WORKSHOPS, CONCERTS, ORCHESTRATION American Pops Orchestra Orchestrations Luke Frazier; Music Director New York Pops Orchestra Transcriptions Steven Reineke; Music Director FIVE POINTS Reading Music Copyist Lyons/Pakchar; dir. Andy Blankenbuehler MANDELA Reading Music Copyist Lincoln Center; dir. Schele Williams BLISS Music Assistant Seattle Fifth Avenue Theatre What A Wonderful World Music Copyist Miami New Drama Breathing Free Arranger Heartbeat Opera Randy Rainbow Tour Music Copyist Jesse Kissel; Music Director Open Jar Productions Accompanist Jeff Whiting, Artistic Director EMG Studios Accompanist Eric Michael Gillett, Artistic Director Adam Pascal Masterclass Music Director In The Wings Taylor Louderman Masterclass Music Director A Class Act NY Joanna Gleason Masterclass Music Director Open Jar Productions NYC Kate Baldwin Masterclass Music Director Open Jar Productions NYC Maury Yeston Masterclass Music Director 92Y, NYC Evangeline Workshop Assistant MD Actors Temple, NYC Loserville School Edition Workshop MD & Supervisor Josef Weinberger Licensing UK Sinatra: The Man & Music MD & Orchestrations Richmond Hill Centre for Performing Arts Comrade Rockstar Workshop Music Director Richard John, Julian Woolford, UK
ACADEMIC RESEARCH & WRITING Reframing the Musical Chapter Publication Palgrave MacMillan, UK Inconvenient Black History of British MT Book (forthcoming) Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Accessibility of Musical Theatre to Youth Article NYU Steinhardt Association for Theatre in Higher Education Panel Presentation Las Vegas, Nevada Educator Care and Maintenance Presentation Music Theatre Educators Alliance, US Reading Musicals Presentation Putting it Together Conference, US Music Director as Production Dramaturg Presentation Putting it Together Conference, UK Inclusion of the Pit Musician Presentation University of York, UK
AWARDS Robert Merritt Award - Outstanding Musical Direction; The Color Purple Victor Phillips Award - Black Theatre Workshop, Montreal
ADDITIONAL SKILLS Orchestration, Arranging, Programming, Music Transcription & Copying
REFERENCES Available upon request
SEAN MAYES [email protected] • seanmayesmusic.com @SeanMayesMD • ca.linkedin.com/in/SeanMayesMD • 718 913 1930