[email protected] www. kylebrenn.com New York City • Norwalk, CT KYLE BRENN (203) 216-7174 SoundCloud: kyle-brenn AEA • SAG-AFTRA composer • arranger • musician actor • music director • copyist
EDUCATION + TRAINING New York University Steinhardt — BM in Music Theory and Composition (2020) Coursework: theory, ear training, music history, counterpoint, orchestration, form & analysis, instrumental practicum Private Instructors (*currently studying with): • Composition: Pedro da Silva, Beata Hlavenková, Ezequiel Viñao, Michael Gordon* • Piano: Alice Fiedlerová • Drums: Tony Moreno • Percussion: Sean Statser • Voice: Ryan Driscoll
RECENT PROJECTS the shape of a child (chamber-theatre piece, NYU senior project) Composer, playwright, orchestrator 2020 jane eyre: an autobiography (Playwrights Horizons Theater School) Music director, orchestrations (music by Beth Golison) 2019 – 2020 Modern Medicine, Lock Jaw, (Covering) Me (triptych) Composer, co-lyricist, orchestrator (w/ Amelia Murray) 2018 – 2019 Blossoming Like Crazy (chamber piece) Composer 2019 The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Playwrights Horizons Theater School) Associate music director, arranger, composer (one piece) 2019 My Robot Boyfriend (20-min. musical for Across A Crowded Room) Co-composer, co-lyricist (book/co-lyrics: Andi Lee Carter) 2018 The Unanswered Question (jazz fusion EP) Co-composer, co-arranger (with C3) 2017 Silent Knight (full-length musical) Composer, playwright, lyricist 2009-2012
SELECTED ACTING EXPERIENCE (see complete professional acting resume on website) The Sun Club Russel HOT! Fest, Dixon Place (dir. Alex Bush) 2019 ASO: To the Moon and Back (youth concert w/ the Allentown Symphony) Narrator Miller Symphony Hall (cond. Diane Wittry) 2019 The Wildness Drummer Playwrights Horizons Theater School 2018 Next to Normal Gabe SoHo Playhouse (Tisch New Theatre) 2018 Sweeney Todd (w/ Emma Thompson & NY Philharmonic) Tobias Ragg Live from Lincoln Center (dir. Lonny Price) 2014 Leap of Faith (w/ Raul Esparza) Jake U/S Broadway (dir. Christopher Ashley) 2012 The Kid Who Would Be Pope Billy McPherson New York Musical Festival (dir. Gabriel Barre) 2011 Pan Peter Pan Equity Reading/Workshop (dir. Jeffrey Seller) 2011 Fun Home Christian Bechdel Equity Readings (dir. Sam Gold) 2011 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (w/ Martin Short) Charlie Bucket Equity Reading (dir. Sam Mendes) 2010 West Side Story Kiddo Broadway revival (dir. Arthur Laurents) 2009
MUSIC ASSISTANT, TRANSCRIBER OR COPYIST JoAnn Kane Music Service Intern - music copying, proofing, physical part preparation Jan 2020 – present Music Theatre International Music & Materials Intern Jun 2019 – May 2020 Eastbound (AEA reading w/ NY Theatre Barn, dir. Joe Barros) Music assistant: transcription, music prep, some arranging Jan 2019 JAWLine Music Preparation (Jesse Wiener) Subcontracted music copyist/transcriber, multiple projects 2018 Healter Skelter the Musical (early development) Music transcriber, copyist Spring 2018 Manhattan Camerata (Pedro da Silva, musical dir.) Assistant for concerts/sessions, performer in music video 2016 – 2017 Curiousities (Off-B’way immersive theatre piece) Music assistant: transcription, arranging, music prep Fall 2016
INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE Sō Percussion Summer Institute (Princeton University) Percussionist - collaboration w/ composers and performers; Summer 2019 mentored by Sō Percussion and Andrea Mazzariello Summer Theatre of New Canaan (CT Equity House) Drummer/percussionist for Equity mainstage productions 2016 – 2018 NYC Cabarets / Pit Orchestras SoHo Playhouse, Ars Nova ANT Fest, New World Stages, Feinsteins/54 Below, Green Room 42, West End Lounge, Dixon Place, Players Theatre (+numerous other ensembles, live performances, and recording experience)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE Pulsing & Shaking (2-night new music festival at NYU) Co-artistic director, co-organizer, graphic design 2019 Eugene (short film for Norwalk High School senior independent study) Co-writer, director, composer, sound designer 2016 Crystal Theatre Performing Arts Center (Norwalk, CT) Camp counselor, music director, various other functions 2004 – 2018 (working with elementary/middle school-aged children • special projects: 2 original musicals, 12-piece orchestrations)
AWARDS + HONORS Alan Menken Composition Scholarship NYU Steinhardt (personally selected by Mr. Menken) 2018 – 2020 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist 2016 BMI Student Composer Award Finalist 2016 Ilias Kementzidis Music Scholarship Norwalk High School 2016 Kevin M. Eidt Memorial Jazz Scholarship Norwalk High School 2016
SKILLS Software Finale, Sibelius, Logic, Microsoft Office Suite; basic skills in Pro Tools Musical strengths Transcription/ear training, improvisation, feel, complex rhythmic structures Skills / interests in the visual arts Drawing, painting, modelmaking, propmaking, woodworking, graphic design