About
I am a Professorial Lecturer for the Theatre/Musical Theatre Program in the Department of Performing Arts at American University, where I also serve as Music Director for productions at the Greenberg and Katzen Studio Theatres.
I recently defended my Ph.D. Dissertation in the Department of Music Theory at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music: “Through Arrangements of Shadows: Experiences of Reprise in Stephen Sondheim’s Leitmotivic Musicals.” Education
Ph.D. (Music Theory/Conducting), M.M. (Music Theory), B.S.O.F. (Piano Performance/Mathematics): Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Projects
An upcoming chapter for an edited collection on analysis of musical theatre: “Was it Ever Real?: Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway Songs.”
Recent musicals at American University DPA:
Miss You Like Hell,
The Boy Detective FailsUpcoming Talks and Conferences
Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting 2020: Theorists Talk about Sex…In Musicals. “Torch Song Ternaries: Broadway Medleys as Reinterpretation” Memberships
Society for Music Theory
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
American Musicological Society
