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Ada Westfall

Maestra Classes Offered

  • Refining Your Pop Song: First Draft to Final

  • Writing a Pop/Rock Theater Song

Ada Westfall

She/Her

Biography

Ada Westfall is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and trans-rights activist. She is an Associate Artist with Theater Mitu and The Civilians and has composed/arranged music for NAATCO, Built For Collapse, NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi, and University of the Arts. Composer/Arranger: A Play On War (Connelly Theater; Drama Desk nomination), Juárez: A Documentary Mythology (Rattlestick), Rimbaud in New York (BAM). Onstage musician: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (Public), The Last Goodbye (Old Globe), Death of a Salesman (BAM). Actor: Rimbaud in New York (BAM), Songbird (59E59), Remnant (Mitu580). BFA: NYU Tisch.

Professional Experience

  • Off Broadway
  • Regional
  • Concerts/Cabaret
  • Education

Regions

  • NYC/Tri-State Area
  • LA/Southern California

Maestra Expertise

  • Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
  • Theatrical Composer (Music only)
  • Theatrical Lyricist
  • Theatrical Bookwriter
  • Music Director/Conductor (Baton)
  • Songwriter
  • Singer/Songwriter
  • Orchestrator
  • Vocal Arranger
  • Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
  • Instrumentalist/Pit Musician
  • Sound Designer/Composer
  • Music Producer/Record Producer

Primary Instruments

  • Bass - Double/Electric
  • Drums
  • Guitar - acoustic
  • Guitar - electric
  • Mandolin
  • Percussion
  • Synthesizer
  • Ukulele
  • Voice

Software

  • Ableton
  • Finale
  • GarageBand
  • Logic
  • MainStage
  • Pro-Tools

Affiliations

  • ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA)
  • THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)