Paul Sportelli - Shaw Festival Theatre

SHAW 2024: Original Music / Original Music Direction A Christmas Carol; Music Director for My Fair Lady, Kabarett, Footlights and Cotton Club; co-adaptor for The Secret Garden. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: 26th season as Music Director; music director, 1922 in Concert, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd, The Next Whisky Bar, Floyd Collins; composer, Mythos, Man and Superman; co-music director, Gatsby’s Jazz, Sonny’s Blues; co-writer, Maria Severa, Tristan. ELSEWHERE: music director, 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; composer, Alice the Magnet, Grimly Handsome, Theatre Animal; 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.