Anessa Marie Scolpini

Biography

ANESSA MARIE SCOLPINI is a composer/lyricist, music director, pianist, and orchestrator based in NYC. She is currently serving as Associate Music Director/Associate Conductor for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway.

Her song cycle, Finding Beautiful (written with Danny Bristoll), debuted at NYMF in 2019. She is currently writing Reign, a rock musical based on Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, with Will Shishmanian. Other musicals currently in development include A First Glimpse of Light and N-Un!@$%able, both of which she is also writing the book.

Anessa also has a passion for education and ensuring the arts live on, and has served as a guest artist with NYU, Pace University, Fordham University, CAP21, LIU-Post, Broadway for Arts Education, The International College of Musical Theatre, The Growing Studio, Musical Theatre Factory, etc. She has served as a mentor/music director for The American Theatre Wing’s Musical Theatre Songwriting Challenge, and her arrangements and orchestrations can be heard on the 2021 and 2022 albums.

Broadway: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Aladdin, Chess (Actor's Fund); Regional/Off-Broadway: White Girl in Danger (K1/Conductor/MD), A Beautiful Noise (Music Assistant, Emerson Colonial), The Griswold’s Broadway Vacation (AMD/Reh. Pianist), Joy (AMD/Rehearsal Pianist), Wonderboy (Orchestrations, 5th Ave), The Golden Record (Arranger/Orchestrator), Into the Woods (MD, OOTB), The Gunfighter Meets His Match (Goodspeed Musicals, MD/Vocal Arrangements), Far From Canterbury (Barnstormers, World Premiere, MD), The Wizard of Oz (Geva, Arrangements and Orchestrations, Showtime! (Edinburgh Fringe, Arrangements and Orchestrations).