SAMPLES OF MY MUSIC
Check out samples of my music! If you’re interested in using one of them for an audition or performance and would like sheet music, send me an email!
BORDERLINE
A young woman living with Borderline Personality Disorder tries to balance moving back in with her father with a new romance in the waiting room of her therapist’s office.
“BORDERLINE” - Anna is trying to make sense of a diagnosis that for the first time names something she’s always felt.
“WANNA GO OUT?” - Jesse, a guy Anna meets in the waiting room of her therapist’s office, tries to ask her out.
“CRAZY WONDERFUL” - John, Anna’s father, wrestles with his feelings about his late wife.
AFTERLAND
Set in the woods outside a decimated Philadelphia, this is the story of two teenagers, Theo and Lu, coming of age in the post-apocalypse.
"Before the End" - Despite the world not being what was promised, Topher sings to Willa about how their love is enough.
"Old Country" - This is myth-making about all the ways the old world ended, sung by the those who’ve vowed to forget the past.
"Can You See" - Lu challenges Theo to open his mind and try seeing the world around him in a new light.
STARBLASTERS
A group of townies on the Jersey Shore, who still work summers at the same run-down theme park where they all met in high school, must figure out how the hell to grow up when their beloved park must close.
“RIG THE GAME” - The parks closing sends them into a frenzy about the false promises sold to their generation.
“TWO SUNS SETTING” - When Nacho ends up in the hospital, he uses Star Wars to think about when he first understood death.
"Prom Was a Promise" - Neil and Freddie haven't spoken since Prom, but what was all the bad blood about?
THE TEMPEST
The story of Prospero and her daughter Miranda, as she tries to get justice for the dukedom her brother stole from her. Written for Shakespeare in the Park and Public Works.
“CAST A SPELL” - Prospero creates a storm to shipwreck those who wronged her.
“A CROWN UPON YOUR HEAD” - Antonio and Alonso conspire to kill the king of Naples.
“LOG MAN” - Prospero realizes her daughter Miranda has fallen in love and that she will have to say goodbye to her.
KISS MY AZTEC
A farcical telling of the Spanish attempting to conquer the Aztecs in the New World. Here’s a version of the opening number “White People On Boats” performed for charity by our La Jolla Playhouse cast from the 2019 production.
“NEW GIRL NEW WORLD” - The Viceroy Rodrigo tries to improve his standing with the crown by marrying his daughter to Sebastian the Gargantuan of Spain, only for Sebastian to arrive to the New World and reveal he is a diminutive product of generations of incest who is looking to expand his genetic pool.
UNTITLED EINSTEIN
This is all I could come up with: When it comes to romantic relationships, it’s all relative. Einstein and his first wife and collaborator Mileva - a genius in her own right - get a group together for funk-infused jam sessions about the nature of the world and our place in it. This concept musical spans time and space to ask - what do we give up of ourselves to be with the one we love?
“Seriously Serious” - Mileva, Albert, Ensemble
This song follows Mileva, the Serbian girl Albert will marry who has defined herself by being the rare woman in the male-dominated field of physics. We follow her from the moment after she gets her letter of acceptance to the Polytechnic to when she matriculates and first sees Albert, to when she and Albert are dating during their second year. The song is a montage in which we go to different places and skip forward in time.
**Note that I sing both characters, although the song is mostly Mileva. Albert’s section begins with “What a find, What a mind…” and ends after the next set of “Seriously Serious” before the dreamy section.
"MARS ONE"
A private Dutch venture dubbed "Mars One" claims they can beat NASA to sending the first humans to Mars. The hitch? It's a one-way trip backed by questionable technology, and yet 200,000 people have already applied. But who are they?! Who is doing that!?!
