Sequoia Sellinger

Biography

Sequoia Sellinger is a composer and collaborative theater artist based in New York City. She is invested in new work that functions as a vehicle to reimagine the possibilities of what the world could be. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music where she studied under Laura Kaminsky and Du Yun. Her studies in the craft of musical theater writing and collaboration have been cultivated by opportunities through the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Studio. I am a member of Maestra and the Dramatists Guild. Recent works include: Earth First (Macdowell Fellowship), Impossible Green (The York Theatre), Silent Springs (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop), History of Traitors According to Sydney (The Wild Project), and Gravity of Me Gone (Ars Nova). She recently wrote vocal and piano arrangements for A Women’s Suffrage Splendiferous Extravaganza, a vaudeville-inspired revue produced by the Pleiades Project. Her musical History of Traitors According to Sydney is currently being supported by the Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle.