Libby Hatton

Biography

Libby Hatton is an orchestrator, music director, copyist, and music assistant who recently relocated from Chicago to New York City! She graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Theatre, a minor in Poetry, and modules in Creating the Musical and Music Direction. She has training and experience in music direction, theatre orchestration, classical orchestration, conducting, songwriting, music preparation, and acting.

Libby served as the music assistant for the Alliance Theatre's production of MILLIONS (Guettel/Martin); the Goodman Theatre's MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (Brown/Mac); and the American Music Theatre Project's reading of NIGHT SIDE SONGS (The Lazours). She was the copyist for a recent reading of THE ANGEL MAKERS (Pipino/Freedman). She also wrote the music for "Be a Buddy" in the LIFE NOW (Saturday Morning Live!) series at The National Theatre. At Northwestern, she orchestrated and coordinated music for The 90th and 91st Waa-Mu Shows; and music directed BIG FISH (Jewish Theatre Ensemble) and LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET (Wirtz Center).

She loves making sourdough bread, bagels, and cinnamon rolls with her starter named Shrek!