Maestra • For the women who make the music in the musical theater industry.

Biography

Magda Kress is a Brooklyn-based queer bassist and composer. She can frequently be found playing one or two basses in musical theatre productions and cabaret bands all over NYC. She especially loves collaborating with theatre-makers and performing new, experimental, and immersive works. Recent favorites include Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Company, A.R.T./New York Theatres), Deathbed Edition (ANTfest, Ars Nova), The Cave: a Folk Opera (Daughters Collective, Access Theater), and The Tattooed Lady (workshop at New Dramatists). She regularly plays with Blake Allen's recurring An Evening with... Series at Green Room 42.