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

Biography

Mo is a New York-based orchestrator, music director, keyboard programmer, and app developer.

While studying at Northwestern University, Mo worked on over twenty shows as orchestrator, music director, and music assistant, including four years of experience orchestrating and writing for The Waa-Mu Show, Northwestern's annual original, student-written book musical. In addition to working at Northwestern, they have worked with Transcendence Theatre Company (CA), Inspire Creative (CO), and Chameleon Arts and Entertainment (CO) as a music apprentice/intern.

Professionally, Mo has worked as a music director and orchestrator at the Polyphone Festival of New and Emerging Musicals at the University of the Arts and Chicago Music Theatre Festival. They were also the music assistant for a workshop of Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo’s The Romeo & Juliet Project.

Mo is currently obtaining their Masters of Arts in Creative Media and Technology from BerkleeNYC.