Emerging musical theater artist Andrea Grody is currently an M.A. candidate in Musical Theatre (Musical Directing) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has music directed over a dozen musicals, notably including FLOYD COLLINS with the Princeton University Program in Theater, SWEENEY TODD at the College Light Opera Company, and ANYTHING GOES at the New London Barn Playhouse. As an assistant music director and music assistant, she has worked with the investigative theater company The Civilians and with Prospect Theater Company, as well as at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the McCarter Theatre. She also served as music assistant for the 2010 Broadway production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. As a conductor, Andrea has led chamber ensembles and full orchestras in repertoire from the classical, operatic, and musical theater traditions, such as selections from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA.
Andrea’s first full-length original musical, STRANGE FACES, premiered in April 2011 to sold-out audiences. For STRANGE FACES, Andrea was awarded the prestigious Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts. She has received a commission from the PRISM Saxophone Quartet and two commissions from the Kingswood-Oxford Octopipers, and she has twice written incidental music for productions at Theatre Intime. She also received the 2009 Milton Lyon Award for Outstanding Writing for her compositions and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club.
Andrea graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, where she majored in Music and minored in Theater. While at Princeton, she served as President of the Princeton University Players and as Writing Coordinator for the Princeton Triangle Club. She has studied piano and voice from a young age and earned a Performer’s Certificate in Classical Piano from the Hartt School of Music in 2006.
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"Wheels"
From the Live Original Cast Recording of Strange Faces (April 2011)
Biography
Andrea’s first full-length original musical, STRANGE FACES, premiered in April 2011 to sold-out audiences. For STRANGE FACES, Andrea was awarded the prestigious Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts. She has received a commission from the PRISM Saxophone Quartet and two commissions from the Kingswood-Oxford Octopipers, and she has twice written incidental music for productions at Theatre Intime. She also received the 2009 Milton Lyon Award for Outstanding Writing for her compositions and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club.
Andrea graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, where she majored in Music and minored in Theater. While at Princeton, she served as President of the Princeton University Players and as Writing Coordinator for the Princeton Triangle Club. She has studied piano and voice from a young age and earned a Performer’s Certificate in Classical Piano from the Hartt School of Music in 2006.