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Composer/Musical Director/Sound Designer/Writer/Performer, Banana Bag & Bodice, a weird and wonderful collaborative theatre ensemble, 9/02-present.

This is my true family, me composing and performing live integrated continuous scores and they screaming and crazying fantastic for these wild pieces of absurdist theatre. Plays include Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, The Fall & Rise of the Rising Fallen, The Sewers, The Young War, Sandwich and Gulag Ha Ha, performed in San Francisco, New York City, Dublin and Montreal.

*East Bay Express #1 Play of 2008, Best of The East Bay 08*
*SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, SF Examiner, Mercury News Best of 08*
*Time Out New York Best of 06, 07*
*Best of Dublin Fringe 06*
*Best of SF Fringe, 02, 03, 04, 07*

A bunch of stuff w/Shotgun Players, Berkeley CA (the first 100% solar powered theatre in the US!), including:

Musical Director, Vera Wilde, dir. Maya Gurantz, Ashby Stage, 9/08.
Musical Director, Ubu for President, dir. Patrick Dooley, John Hinkel Park, 8/08;
Composer/Musical Director/Performer, Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage, w/Banana Bag & Bodice, dir. Rod Hipskind, Ashby Stage, 5/08.
Sound Designer, Bulrusher, dir. Ellen Sebastian Chang & Margo Hall, Ashby Stage, 10/07.
Accordionist, Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods, w/The Independent Eye, dir. Conrad Bishop, John Hinkel Park, 8/06.
Co-Musical Director, Cabaret, dir. Russell Blackwood, Ashby Stage, 12/05.

Sound Designer, You Can't Get There From Here, w/Anne Galjour, dir. Jayne Wenger, Magic Theater, SF CA, 8/08.

Musical Director/Pianist, Youth Musical Theater Company, Berkeley CA, 6/06-7/08.

Entailing a bunch of workshops and two full scale musicals a year, for students from grade 7-12. We did Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Man of La Mancha and Into the Woods. For Woods, I conducted the 15-piece orchestra from the piano, learning a valuable lesson: never conduct Sondheim from the piano.

Sound Designer, Bride, w/Lone Wolf Tribe, PS122, NYC, 3/08.

*Time Out New York Best of 08*

Pianist, Siddhartha: The Bright Path, w/ Marsh Youth Theater, dir. Lisa Quoresimo, The Marsh, SF CA, 12/07-1/08.

Composer/Sound Designer, Dysphoria, w/ Hoi Polloi, dir. Alec Duffy, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, NYC, 8/07.

Alec Duffy is one of the leading futures of the new theater. This piece explored the interpersonal dynamics of five religious cultists living in a single room in preparation for life on a space station.

Sound Designer, Killing My Lobster Saves The Day, dir. Sarah Mitchell, Eurkea Theater, SF CA, 6/07; Killing My Lobster For The Very First Time, dir. Shaye Troha, ODC, SF CA, 11/07; Killing My Lobster Springs Forward, Falls Back , dir. Andy Alabran, Dance Mission Theater, SF CA, 7/08.

Musical Director/Pianist, Hair, dir. Maya Gurantz, Berkeley High School, Berkeley CA, 5/07.

Deconstructed as a piece found in the kids' attic. At one point they were playing 20+ guitars.

Composer/Musical Director/Pianist/Job/Judas, Clown Bible, w/Ten Red Hen, dir. Maya Gurantz, Willard Metalshop Theater, Berkeley CA, 3/07.

God grows up, Creation to Resurrection, told through clowns. With ridculous acrobatics, a clown car birth, eye-gouging, cubitsticks, and a full string quintet. Starring Jane Chen as God and Jesus.

*Best Play, Best Music, East Bay Express, Best of 2007*

Accompanist, San Francisco Acadamy for the Performing Arts, w/Richard Nickol, voice builder, SF CA, 11/05-2/07.

Performer/Musical Director, 365 Plays/365 Days (Week 4), w/Ten Red Hen, dir. Maya Gurantz, Bay Area, 12/06.

We did our week at private parties. It was really lovely; Napolean and Wellington facing each other in the rain on the hood of an old Cadillac, oh yes.

Pianist, The Last 5 Years, w/In-Tandem Productions, dir. Holden Sperling, The Playhouse, San Anselmo CA, 10/06.

Sound Designer, The Merry Wives of Windsor, w/California Shakespeare Theater, dir. Sean Daniels, Bruns Ampitheater, Orinda CA, 6/06.

Wonderful fun puppet Shakespeare, with a brilliant cast and amazing puppets designed by Jon Ludwig of the Center for Puppetry Arts. Done in the style of a Warner Bros. cartoon, thus 250+ sound cues, hee hee.

*Best Sound Design, Bay Area Critic's Circle Awards 2006*

Composer/Performer, The Faith Project, dir. Susannah Martin, Mondavi Center, Davis CA, 5/06.

A devised piece investigating faith in America. Featuring a score for prepared piano, bass, cello, oboe, percussion and choir, and an onstage baptism, oh yeah.

Composer/Performer, Frankie Done It 291 Ways, w/mugwumpin, Ashby Stage, Berkeley CA, 4/06.

A devised piece based on the song "Frankie & Johnny" and the real life woman it haunted. With doppelgängers, slick choreography, and harmonica duels. We chickened out on the blackface though.

Musical Director/Pianist/Chris, (The 99 Cent) Miss Saigon, w/Ten Red Hen, dir. Maya Gurantz, Willard Metalshop Theater, Berkeley CA, 3/06.

Reimagining the biggest of Broadway musicals as a piece of poor theatre. We had an awesome GI Joe helicopter on a zip line and used a balloon for the kid. This is my favorite thing I've ever done ever.

Sound Designer, On The Bum, w/ACT, dir. Sheryl Kaller, Zeum Theater, SF CA, 3/06

Pianist, Celebrity Cruises, Alaska, 6/01-9/01, the Caribbean, 9/03-1/04, Bermuda, 6/04-11/04, the Mediterranean, 4/05-7/05.

You can read about this, if you like. I played in the showband, backing up quaisvirtuoso violinists playing Lord of the Dance medleys, Scottish tenors performing "Danny Boy" and Motown medleys, impersonators doing Sammy Davis Jr. medleys, dulcimer players doing Fiddler on the Roof medleys. We also got to play on top of prerecorded "click tracks" for the big Broadway medley production shows. Afterward, everyone went to the crew bar and got drunk on dollar Heinekens. It's really strange.

I also got to follow beautiful 85 year old women through tempoless multikey versions of "Summertime", etc., for the Guest Talent Show. This helped me come to believe in God.

Composer/Musical Director/Sound Designer/Performer, a bunch of plays at The Exit Theater, SF CA, including:

Cabaret Rebel, w/Beth Wilmurt, dir. Mark Jackson, a lovely singin' show, 5/04
A Night Among The Stars, a benefit for The Exit, 3/04
in3, w/j. ries and Meredith Eldred, 4/03
Ghostlight, w/Sean Owens, dir. Meredith Eldred, 10/02
Champion!, w/Thessaly Lerner, dir. Peter Nachtrieb, 5/02
 The Whistleaires' Big Christmas Special(s), yes, they whistled!, 12/00 and 12/01
Spontaneous Musical Moments, w/Sean Owens, musical numbers performed upon the unsuspecting public in the SF Theater District, 9/01
Gogol, w/Jason Craig and Sean Owens, dir. Meredith Eldred, 6/01
Get Me Rodd Keith!, w/Josh Pollock, dir. Meredith Eldred, 6/00

Composer, The Invaders, w/Sean Owens, dir. Kathryn Wood, Spanganga, SF CA, 4/04.

Sound Designer/Composer, Woods For The Trees, w/Kraft & Purver, Noh Space, SF CA, 4/04.

Musical Director, Coconut Cabaret, w/ Teatro Akumal, Akumal, Mexico, 7/02.

A talent show for a beautiful community of super-friendly millionaire expats. Whoa.

Pianist, Erik Satie's "Vexations", w/Kerstin Kussmaul & The Monday Travel Group, ODC, SF CA, 12/01.

This is one of the more interesting things I've been involved in, sharing in the piano playing for an 18 hour dance performance of Satie's "Vexations", a slow, wandering piano melody that is repeated 840 times. People danced, people made sushi, people painted, people had seizures. I think my longest shift was four hours...though it's really all a beautiful blur now.

Pianist, Ohio Valley Summer Theater, Athens OH, 6/96-8/96, 6/97-8/97, 6/98-8/98.

Worked as pianist for musical theatre company in rehearsal and performance. We did Big River, West Side Story and The Music Man. During Tony's death scene at the end of West Side one night, I forgot to set my keyboard back to "Piano" after this spacejam murder freak out section we used to play, and so came in during this really quiet sad, emotional high of the play scene with a full church organ playing the normally plaintive last bars of "Somewhere".

Vocal/Instrumental/Choral/Dance Accompanist, Ohio University, 9/94-6/98.

Accompanied vocal and instrumental students of all ages for lessons, recitals, juries and competitions. Accompanied Ohio University Youth Choir. Accompanied Ballet and Modern dance classes. Learned how to spell accompanist.

Plus a bunch of bands over the years, including:

Non-Musico

Instructor, ManhattanGMAT, NYC, 9/08-present.

Counselor, Sunny Hills Children's Garden, Marin County CA, 12/04-11/05.

This is a group of homes and a school for emotionally disturbed children, ages 6-12. Part of the job involved restraining kids who are like 8 years old and physically assaultive. Once a girl urinated on me during a hold. But then at bedtime we sang each other our favorite church songs. It was pretty wild, with these marathon 50 hour shifts, and the emotional drain of the kids alternately loving and hating you, but it was super neat, probably the best job I've ever had.

Instructor, The Princeton Review, San Francisco CA, 7/00-4/05.

Taught courses in SAT, GMAT, GRE and LSAT preparation for high school and college students. I liked to keep the class lively by using experimental teaching techniques, such as standing on chairs.

Teacher, Jewish Community Center Preschool, San Francisco CA, 9/00-9/03.

Taught at preschool in classrooms for 2-5 year olds. The school was based in the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, which meant that we designed the curriculum around what the kids were interested in. Like Greenland. Or spending four months trying to figure out how to open this locked wooden box. The idea being that children have probably a lot more to teach us then we them. I used to get in trouble for doing stuff like letting the kids punch in the security code, or letting them draw flowers on each other's hands in permanent markers. (They're! not! really! permanent!)

Content Editor, Voquette.com, San Mateo CA, 3/00-9/00.

My one startup, writing useless capsule summaries of classical, jazz and country audio content on the internet. I quit one month before the company folded, thus missing my big shot at dotcom unemployment collecting. Rats!

Sales Associate, Amoeba Music, San Francisco CA, 3/99-4/00.            

I worked mostly in the jazz/classical department, pricing CDs, stocking CDs, suggesting CDs, occasionally shaking up the customers by playing weird electronic CDs right before closing. I probably spent about half of my paychecks on CDs, ravenously picking up all the things all the other, cooler employees told me to get.

Pizza Cook, Fatty J's, Boulder CO, 8/98-12/98.

This is where I learned to flip pizza dough high in the twirling air like a cloud carousel.

Educatio

University of Colorado at Boulder, 9/98-12/98.

I didn't really like being in grad school. It just seemed silly.

Ohio University, Athens OH, 9/94-6/98.

Bachelor of Music in Composition, one class short of a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (decided to take trapshooting instead), Summa Cum Laude. Applied study in composition with Mark Phillips, piano with Richard Syracuse.

I spent most of the last two years of college drinking wine, watching old movies and playing hearts. But I also got to write groove-noise music for a full symphony orchestra.

Skillos

Composer, pianist, accordionist, other weird instrumentsist, singer, accompanist, teacher, conductor, arranger, sound designer, sound engineer, etc. Excellent sight reader. Experienced working with students of all ages in vocal training, piano pedagogy and music theory. And standardized tests. Extensive knowledge of music theory and history, with specialization in twentieth-century music, piano literature, jazz and that cool music the kids are talking about. All the computer stuff, including Macromedia Suite (this website, these hands) and Logic Audio. Functional fluency in German (not really. I just like putting that). Fast and avid reader, have lots of incomplete knowledge of math, science, philosophy and religion. Can ride a bike all over the place. Good cook. Good at cards, backgammon, Scrabble, Boggle, cryptic crossword puzzles, trapshooting. Really enjoy organizing things (OCD runs in the family). Could probably name all 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone from memory. If pressed.

References available upon request.