DEBORAH GROSSMAN
Phone/Message (301) 920-1912
Summary Music Background
Classically trained pianist and singer (Oberlin Conservatory) with over 20 years’ experience working in opera and musical theatre as a director, music director, and choreographer. Performance experience as a singer, dancer, and pianist; rehearsal accompanist and vocal coach.
Related experience with youth (age 8-18): Co-founder and music director for Stage Door Conservatory, a musical theatre training program for young people based in Berkeley, California (www.stagedoorconservatory.org). On faculty at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD since January 2007: private voice, Broadway Song & Dance classes, music director for summer camp program.
Music Director / Performance Pianist
Music Man, Jr., Imagination Stage Summer Theater Camp, Bethesda, MD (2007)
Ladies and Gentlemen (by Emma Donahue), U.S. Premiere, Shee Theatre Company, San Francisco, CA (2003)
Into the Woods, Jr., and Scenes from Working, Stage Door Conservatory, Berkeley, CA (1999)
Annie Get Your Gun, Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center, Youth Theatre, Berkeley, CA (1998)
Once Upon a Mattress, Berkeley-Richmond JCC Youth Theatre (1997)
Alice in Concert, Berkeley-Richmond JCC Youth Theatre (1996)
Really Rosie, Berkeley-Richmond JCC Youth Theatre (1995)
Summer Stock, Surflight Summer Theatre, Beach Haven, N.J. (1989)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Kiss Me Kate
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Annie
Patience (Assistant M.D./rehearsal pianist), George Washington University (1989)
Presentation of the Virgin (Assistant M.D./vocal coach), University of Toronto, Poculi Ludique Societas (1988)
Piano Accompanying
Pirates of Penzance (rehearsal substitute), Washington Savoyards, DC (2008)
Me and My Girl (rehearsal substitute), Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society, England (2005)
H.M.S. Pinafore (rehearsal substitute), Lamplighters Music Theater, San Francisco, CA (2000)
Spring Revue (rehearsal substitute), Alameda Civic Light Opera Company, CA (1998)
Pirates of Penzance (rehearsal substitute), Lamplighters Music Theater (1996)
Iolanthe, Victorian Lyric Opera Company G&S Sing-Out, Rockville, MD (1992)
Camelot, The Castle Players, Hyattsville, MD (1992)
Annie Get Your Gun, Oberlin Student Theater Association (1987)
Cole, Montgomery Playhouse, Rockville, MD (1987)
Atalanta, Montgomery Playhouse (1987)
Fiddler on the Roof, Wildwood Summer Theater, Bethesda, MD (1985)
Chicago, Oberlin Student Theater Association (1983)
Little Mary Sunshine, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (1983)
OTHER EXPERIENCE (see separate resumes)
Producer / Director / Choreographer / Stage Manager
Arts Management: Marketing, Publicity, Grant Writing
EDUCATION
Currently study voice with Doug Bowles.
Oberlin College, B.A. May 1988 (Magna Cum Laude - Medieval Studies)
(Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Piano & Voice Study, Music History/Theory)
Other Skills and Training: Extensive Choral Experience (1976-1988), Ballet, Gymnastics.
Languages: French (basic fluency). Singers’ knowledge of Italian and German.
(as of June 6, 2008)
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