Jay Crowder Music Director
Music Director of Music Theater and Television at the John F. Kennedy Center (2008-Present). Kennedy Center credits include Follies, Ragtime, Gigi, Mame, Company and Passion (Sondheim Festival). REGIONAL: Signature Theater: Urinetown, Sideshow, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, A Christmas Carol Rag. Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol, 110 in The Shade, Violet, 1776, Liberty Smith, The Civil War. Studio Theater: A New Brain. Roundhouse Theater: A Year With Frog and Toad. Metro Stage: Starting Here, Starting Now. PIANIST: Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Bounce, James Joyce’s The Dead, Martin Guerre, The Paul Taylor Dance Company, and The Dance Theater of Harlem. CABARET PIANIST: Judy Kuhn, Kevin Spacey, Judy Simmons, Michael Rupert, Will Gartshore, and Sam Harris. AWARDS: Helen Hayes: 7 time nominee and Winner for Outstanding Music Direction for Urinetown at Signature Theater. TRAINING: Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, University of Maryland at College Park; Master of Music in Piano Performance at Northwestern University.