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Simone Allen

Simone Allen

She/Her

Biography

Simone Allen is a music director, pianist, arranger, & songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She recently music-directed Sweeney Todd at The Hangar Theatre, featuring Nik Walker and Donna Lynne Champlin.

Broadway: The Cher Show.

Off-Broadway: Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3 Lincoln Center, Music Director), Octet (Signature Theatre/Berkeley Rep, AMD), Cornelia Street (Atlantic Theater, Conductor/AMD), Black No More (The New Group), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre, AMD), Cruel Intentions (keyboard sub), As You Like It (Public Works).

Additional & developmental: Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse), Pretty Woman (First National Tour, Keys 2 sub), Another Rose (Virgin Voyages, AMD), The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company, AMD sub), The Karate Kid (lab), Suffs (Public Theater, readings), Against Women & Music! (The Civilians reading, vocal MD), Liner Notes On Love & Music (MD), One Way (NAMT, MD), A Beautiful Noise (reading), Letters to the President (Cooper Union, songwriter), Black Orpheus, The Cherry Orchard (Lake Lucille Chekhov Project), Moulin Rouge (lab, rehearsal piano).

BA Music Tufts University.

Professional Experience

  • Broadway
  • Off Broadway
  • Regional
  • Concerts/Cabaret
  • Education
  • Tours
  • Community Theatre
  • Bachelor’s Degree

Regions

  • NYC/Tri-State Area
  • San Francisco/Northern California

Maestra Expertise

  • Theatrical Bookwriter
  • Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
  • Music Assistant
  • Songwriter
  • Singer/Songwriter
  • Vocal Arranger
  • Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
  • Instrumentalist/Pit Musician
  • Music Copyist
  • Music Transcriber
  • Class/Voice Lesson/Rehearsal Pianist
  • Rehearsal Pianist

Primary Instruments

  • Flute
  • Piano
  • Synthesizer
  • Voice

Additional Instruments

  • Accordion

Software

  • Finale
  • GarageBand
  • Logic
  • MainStage
  • Sibelius

Affiliations

  • THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
  • ASCAP