Simone Allen
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: Octet (Signature Theatre, AMD), Black No More (The New Group), Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre, AMD), Cruel Intentions (keyboard sub), As You Like It (Public Works). Development/regional/other: The Karate Kid, Suffs (Public Theater), Against Women & Music! (The Civilians reading, vocal MD), Liner Notes On Love & Music (MD), One Way (NAMT, MD), A Beautiful Noise, 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
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
- Northern California
Maestra Expertise
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Bookwriter/Librettist
- Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
- Music Assistant
- Songwriter
- Singer/Songwriter
- Vocal Arranger
- Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
- Music Copyist
- Music Transcriber
- Pit Musician (Keyboards)
- Pit Musician (Other)
- Class/Voice Lesson/Rehearsal Pianist
- Rehearsal Pianist
My Primary Instrument
- Piano
My Instruments
- Accordion
- Flute
- Guitar - acoustic
- Piano
- Saxophone
- Synth - keyboards
- Voice
Software
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
- MainStage
- Sibelius
Additional Skills
- Actor-Musician
- Home Studio Whiz
Affiliations
- THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
- ASCAP