Katya Stanislavskaya

Biography

Katya Stanislavskaya is a musical theatre composer, lyricist, librettist, musical director, and educator. Her original works include full-length musicals RESIDENT ALIEN (Weston New Musical Award), GOING SOUTH (Dixon Place, Gallery Players), THE USEFUL CITIZEN (Gainesville Theater Alliance, SUNY-New Paltz), POETRY & PROSE (Manhattan School of Music), theatrical song cycle WOMEN ON LOVE (54 Below, Temple University, Planet Connections), and numerous short musicals and cabaret songs. She recently released THE MOTHER [UN]LOAD, an EP of 7 songs for and about women of a certain age, and especially mothers.
Katya's work have been developed at the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, New Dramatists, New Georges, Weston Playhouse, Astoria Performing Arts Center, New York Theatre Barn, and Western Carolina University. Her songs have been performed at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Ars Nova, Barrington Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, York Theatre, and Prospect theatre by Broadway perfomers including Taylor Trensch, Wes Taylor, Grace McLean, Karen Ziemba, Malcolm Gets, Alyse Alan Louis, Amy Justman, and Theresa McCarthy. Honors include the Jerry Harrington Award (BMI), MacDowell Colony Residency, and Nautilus/New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio.

Katya has served as musical director, conductor, and/or pianist at New York and regional theaters such as ACT of Connecticut, Connecticut Rep, Barrington Stage, Prince Theater, and Arden Theater. She is an Associate Professor at Boston Coservatory at Berklee, and previously taught SUNY - New Paltz and Western Carolina University. She earned her MFA at the NYU-Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, and has both a BM and MM in piano from Temple University in Philadelphia.