Brooke Elizabeth Sanders

Biography

Brooke Sanders is from Nashville TN and an alumni of Berklee College of Music (c/o 2024) with a degree in Songwriting with minors in Musical Theater writing and Musical Theater conducting. She is a music director, conductor, songwriter, arranger, copyist, and pianist. She's currently the Associate Music Director on the world premiere of "Syncopated Ave" at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe in Sarasota, FL. Recent credits include RUBY at the Detroit Music Hall (music assistant) and Plaid Tidings at Great Plains Theatre (music director). Having written, directed and produced her original musical as a high school student, she continued that passion through studying musical theater writing and musical theater conducting at Berklee. As a writer, she is a winner of the Curtain Up! contest for musical theater writing for her lyrics on "Okay" (composed by Nancy O'Conner). As a music director, she is experienced both piano conducting and stick conducting. She has music directed multiple shows at Boston University including Anastasia (2024), which she stick conducted, and Spring Awakening (2023). Her work in Anastasia earned her an award for Best Music Direction of the Boston University on Broadway 2023-2024 season. She also music directed and stick conducted Curtain Up in April 2024, Berklee's premier contest for musical theater writing. She has won an honor from the Nashville Spotlight Awards as a music director for her work on "Freaky Friday" in 2019. She also served as the president of the Berklee Broadway Band, a group on the Berklee/Boston Conservatory campus dedicated to providing students with the tools for the professional musical theater industry as orchestrators, music directors, copyists, pit musicians, and vocalists. She has also played piano in the pits for multiple musicals on the Berklee campus. As a pianist, she also earned a merit based scholarship covering half of her tuition for Berklee. She has also worked as an orchestrator and copyist for the Broadway Band and Curtain Up.