Paul Sportelli - Shaw Festival Theatre

Paul Sportelli
Music Director

SHAW 2026: Music Director for Funny Girl, Cinderella, Music Supervisor for Amadeus. FOR THE SHAW: 28th season as Music Director; music director, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd, The Next Whisky Bar, Floyd Collins; composer, Mythos, Man and Superman; co-writer, The Secret Garden, Maria Severa, Tristan. (Selected Credits) ELSEWHERE: music director, Into the Woods, Follies in Concert, Koerner Hall; co-writer, Erik with a K (Canadian Musical Theatre Project); 33-1/3, Dobama Theatre, Cleveland; Playwrights Guild of Canada award for best new musical; Oracle, Nobody Told Me, Step Right Up!, Little Mercy’s First Murder (seven Dora awards), Tarragon Theatre; recordings include Maria Severa, Tristan, jaypaul project (jaypaulproject.com); music director: Mirvish, Livent, Arena Stage, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Tarragon, Musical Stage, Studio 180, YPT; five Dora awards and one Helen Hayes award; conducting debut, Aspects of Love, Broadway. TRAINING: BM, Performers’ Certificate, Eastman School of Music; MM, DMA, Manhattan School of Music.

Also onstage in 2026
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Funny Girl

Ziegfeld found a star. Broadway found a legend.

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Amadeus

A symphony of beauty, brilliance and betrayal.

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Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

More magic than you can shake a wand at!

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