Ryan deSouza - Shaw Festival Theatre

SHAW 2025: Associate Conductor for White Christmas, Associate music director for Anything Goes, composer and music director for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Host and Creator of Shaw’s Speakeasy and What’s In Your Songbook? series. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: 25th season as associate music director and Company Pianist; ELSEWHERE: most recently Music Director for Crow’s Theatre and Musical Stage Company’s co-production of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (for which he won a Dora award for Music Direction), productions across Canada at theatres including the Citadel Theatre, the Grand Theatre, Canadian Stage, Mirvish Productions, Ross Petty Productions, TIFT, New Stages and Theatre New Brunswick; performances with Jennifer Hudson, Andrea Bocelli, and The Tenors. UPCOMING: music supervisor and orchestrator for Vinyl Cafe: The Musical at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton. TRAINING: St Michael’s Choir School; Honours BSc, University of Toronto.