Sequoia Sellinger

Biography

Sequoia Sellinger is a composer, educator, and collaborative theater artist based in New York City. She aims to create work that is accessible, relatable, funny, and reimagines the possibilities of what the world could be. She challenges traditional storytelling expectations by writing through a feminist and anti-racist lens. Her work in community-building echoes in her work as an artist and educator because she believes collaboration is practice for living and allows us to create the world we want to live in (and sing in) together. Sequoia holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch (ASCAP Max Dreyfus Award & Schubert Scholarship), as well as a Bachelors of Music in Composition from Purchase Conservatory of Music. She also studied composition at Nadia Boulanger’s Conservatoire in Paris. She was a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop as well as New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio. She is a proud member of both the Dramatists Guild and Maestra. Original musicals include: “Next Year in Connecticut!” (Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Sold Out Green Room 42 Show, NYU Tisch, AMTP Semi-finalist), “Earth First!” (Macdowell Fellowship, College of the Atlantic, Dartmouth), “Silent Springs” (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop), and “Impossible Green” (The York Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory), “Gravity of Me Gone” (Ars Nova ANT Fest). Her micro-opera “It’s Noon, Do You Know Where Your House Plants Are?” was premiered by American Opera Projects this past May 2024.

Follow her at www.sequoiasellinger.com