I'm an award winning composer, songwriter and musician who’s worked on varied projects around the world in theaters on and off Broadway as well as in television and film. I’ve had the great fortune to collaborate with creatives such as Thomas Mizer, Amanda Green, Sam Mendes, Kevin Spacey, George C. Wolfe, Phil Ramone, Tom Stoppard, Todd Solondz, Arthur Laurents, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Theresa Rebeck, Jack O’Brien, Mark Bennett, Michael Friedman, Kirsten Childs, Jason Robert Brown, Jeff Marx, Tom Kitt, Christopher Gattelli, Dan Lipton, Katie Holmes, Tom Hanks, bd wong, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Martha Plimpton, Brian d’Arcy James, Richard Thomas, and Matthew Brookshire.

I recently finished writing, conducting, and arranging the music and songs for the Amazon Prime hit series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with my longtime writing partner Thomas Mizer. Three of our songs, “Your Personal Trash Man Can,” “One Less Angel,” and “Maybe Monica” were nominated for primetime Emmys for Best Original Song, and the latter won an HMMA award for best song. I also scored the new FOX prime-time animated series HouseBroken, starring Emmy Award winner Lisa Kudrow.

On Broadway, I composed the music for Nora Ephron's play Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks and directed by George C. Wolfe.  In collaboration with lyricist Thomas Mizer I was awarded the 2016 Fred Ebb Award, and the 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant. Together we have written the musicals Triangle (World Premiere TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, commissioned by Williamstown Theatre Festival, and also presented at the Eugene O’Neill Center and the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, winner of six Theatre Bay Area Awards including “Outstanding World Premiere Musical,” and named a Richard Rodgers Award Finalist by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), The Legend Of Stagecoach Mary (National Alliance for Musical Theater), and The Bus To Buenos Aires (Ensemble Studio Theater, NY). We teamed up with Amanda Green (Bring It On, Hands on a Hard Body) and Matthew Brookshire on the critically acclaimed musical, For The Love Of Tiffany (Wings Theater).  I also composed the score for Barry Edelstein's production of Timon of Athens at the Public Theater, and Hamlet and Othello at the Old Globe in San Diego.    

I collaborated with Matt Sax and Eric Rosen on Venice as music supervisor, providing orchestrations and additional music, which premiered as a joint production between The Center Theater Group in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Rep, and was presented in a sold out-extended run at the Public Theater in New York in 2013.

Currently, I am working on three commissions from Scott Sanders Productions, Universal Pictures, and Michael Cassell Group, as well as a new musical Female Troubles with Amanda Green (Hands on a Hard Body, Bring It On), Jen Crittenden, and Gabby Allan (Veep).

For film and television, I wrote and performed songs for the Todd Solondz’ film Palindromes (Venice, Toronto, Telluride, New York film festivals,) the score for Clear Blue Tuesday, music for Industrial Light and Magic, Great Performances 40th Anniversary Celebration for PBS, MTV networks, the Miss America Pageant, and the CBS’ Rose Bowl Celebration. Most recently, I composed the music for the short film Places I Can Never Go Back To.

As a songwriter and producer, I’ve had my worked performed by Sara Ramirez, #1 Billboard dance artist, Kevin Aviance, Ari Gold, and American Idol finalists Dilia Jelen and Karen Rodriguez.

In addition to composing, I am an orchestrator, arranger, conductor, music supervisor, music producer, and occasional performer. I conducted and performed in the The Bridge Project’s acclaimed world tour of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes. This concluded three years of work with The Bridge Project (a joint production of BAM and The Old Vic) as music supervisor and Mark Bennett’s associate composer for The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Tempest, and Richard III. 

I was music supervisor for Moisés Kaufman’s production of Into The Woods and Ernest Shackleton Loves Me at Second Stage in NYC. I provided arrangements for Sense and Sensibility at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and The Old Globe in San Diego; and provided orchestrations for Coast of Utopia, Cymbeline, Macbeth, The New Century at Lincoln Center Theater, The 40th Anniversary of Great Performances on PBS at The Metropolitan Opera, Saved at Playwrights Horizons, Striking 12, the London revival of Pippin, the original cast recordings of The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and Earnest Shackleton Loves Me.

I was honored to supervise and compose music for the closing ceremony of the Shinnyo Lantern Floating for Peace at Lincoln Center two years in a row (2015 and 2016), coinciding with the International Day of Peace and the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.

A graduate of Northwestern University and a founding member of the Northwestern University Entertainment Alliance, I'm based in New York, NY and have volunteered my time, talent and skills to The Entertainment Fund, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Covenant House, and the Ali Forney Center for LGBTQ youth.

Awards, Grants, and Residencies

• Three Prime Time Emmy Nominations for Original Music and Lyrics, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 2023, 2022, 2020

• 2023 World Soundtrack Award, Best Original Song “Your Personal Trash Man Can”

• Hollywood Music and Media Award for best original song for a TV Show or Limited Series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, 2022

• Fred Ebb Award for excellence in music theater songwriting, 2016

• Theatre Bay Area Awards: Outstanding World Premiere Musical; Triangle, 2015

• The Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, 2014

• ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Best Composer Award, 2012

• TheatreWorks New Works Festival Residency, 2012

• American Musical Theater Project, Northwestern University 2011

• CAP 21 Residency, 2011

• Jonathan Larson Theater Grant – The American Theater Wing, 2009

• Eugene O’Neill Theater Grant, 1998, 2000, 2006

• National Endowment for the Arts, orchestration grant, 2002

• Garland Award for Best Score for a Musical – Backstage, 2001

• Best Score for a Musical – L.A. Drama Critics nomination, 2001

• National Music Theater Conference – Emerging Artist Grant, 1998

• John P. Paynter Award – Orchestration, 1995