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: 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