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Watch Jennifer Apple perform Focus On Your Hands from NOISE at Under The Arch Incubator’s Collaborative Cabaret Series (featuring the national touring cast of The Band’s Visit)!

Watch Kevin Michael Murphy perform Goodnight – a song I wrote just for him, born from MuseMatch: A Musical Theatre Blind Date!

 

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MAESTRA MUSIC, INC. Maestra is a collective founded by composer/lyricist and music director Georgia Stitt to give support, visibility, and community to the womxn who make music in the theatre industry. (Read more about this badass organization HERE!)

Recent Posts

  • Work In Progress: The Next Generation of New Writers at 54 Below!
  • Photos from NOISE at Emerging Artists Theatre!
  • NOISE at Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Work Series!

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WOOHOO! In the spirit of ✨works in progress✨, WOOHOO! In the spirit of ✨works in progress✨, I’m so excited to share a very new tune in this lineup of new composers at 54 Below later this month! Catch me willingly paying $16 for sangria and basking in the wonder of new work! Thanks so much for having me, @mollyabigail1 and @vaibumohan, and for lending me your talents, @grobanzobean66 and @kathlynn_rodin !!
Still reeling from the chance to see these incredi Still reeling from the chance to see these incredible people being NOISE to life. Although part of me wants to hoard them all for myself, please indulge me in hyping up this unbelievable team, because every writer I know would be beyond blessed to work with these folks. THEATRE FRIENDS: HIRE THESE PEOPLE!!!! (CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS!) @jslaght (director extraordinaire) will see straight through to the core of your work and summon that core to the surface, will translate your blubbering into actionable direction, and will make sure you’re heard through every second of the process. @jeremyjacobs24 (prolific MD) will figure out exactly what you intended (but incorrectly transcribed) for every inch of your score, will bring what I can only describe as a level of musical dramaturgy to your piece which will challenge and expand it, will support each actor as if he’s known them forever, and will play your score brilliantly. @sarahdaceycharles will elevate every piece of material she touches, will learn three versions of your show’s ending and will add invaluable insight into each one, will add warmth to what’s clinical, will add depth to what’s flat, and will breathe so much genuine, complicated life into a character that you forget she doesn’t actually have a PHD herself. @stefanyourface will dig so far into your piece that he knows it better than you do, will make the simplest moments gut wrenching and the most convoluted moments human, will sing so effortlessly beautifully that the fact that you don’t know how to write for tenors will be completely irrelevant, and if you’re lucky, will be your best friend, partner, and the person you want to go on every adventure with. @_hannahhakim I’m pretty sure cannot tell a goddamn lie. She will bring endless honesty, clarity, and HEART to every word she speaks and every note she sings, will take direction like “can you be more ghostly” as if that’s a normal thing to ask someone, will make the most awkward string of notes sound like the easiest breath of air, and will make me cry every damn time she performs my work. (goddamn it Instagram, continued in the comments!!!!) / photos by @theirphotographeraidan
I'm usually squeamish about putting my materials ✨out there✨, but I was tasked with writing a song for the magnificently talented @kevinmichaelmurphy for @billcoynespeaks ' MuseMatch concert series, and can't resist sharing the result. Thank you for the opportunity to have a hand in something so beautiful! If you want to hear even MORE neurotic music from me sung by OTHER unfathomably talented people, you can swing by @emergingartiststheatre on Saturday night for the reading of my musical, Noise!
I’m so grateful to introduce this killer cast an I’m so grateful to introduce this killer cast and creative team for the reading of my musical, NOISE, via the Emerging Artists Theatre’s New Work Series on April 2nd! Still pinching myself over the fact that these talented people are lending me their time!!! Tickets are already available, and I’d love some familiar faces there! Come through!🥰🙏
Just 10 days till MuseMatch takes the Greenroom 42 Just 10 days till MuseMatch takes the Greenroom 42! Created by Bill Coyne and music directed by Nathan Dame, MuseMatch is a concert of new songs born from a series of “blind dates” between composers and performers. I’ve been tasked with writing a song for my absolutely brilliant IRL MUSE, @kevinmichaelmurphy! (Swipe to see him in his natural habitat✨ Get your tickies! It’s gonna get real neurotic up in here!
Woohoo! Excited and grateful to hear NOISE read by Woohoo! Excited and grateful to hear NOISE read by some talented folks via @cg_theatreco ‘s new works series tomorrow night! Message them for the zoom link or be square!
So excited to share two tunes from PAINTING FAYE S So excited to share two tunes from PAINTING FAYE SALVEZ and one from NOISE at this Friday night’s concert celebrating women+ composers! The lineup also features work by the brilliant Katya Stanislavskaya and Tidtaya Sinutoke. Come through! Post from @tinpanalley2 #artistspotlight Rachel Covey is a playwright, composer, and a 2020 graduate of Northwestern University. Her first musical, Painting Faye Salvez, has received readings and workshops at the New York Musical Festival (NYMF), the Library at the Public Theater, and Tuacahn Theatre. Her other work has been performed at the York Theatre’s New Works Concert (after placing as a finalist for the 2020 NEO concert), the Chicago Dramatists Guild, the Allen & Gray Musical Festival’s New Voices Concert Series, the Titchfield Festival Theatre’s New Songwriters Concert (UK), and Under the Arch Incubator’s New Work Cabaret (featuring the national touring cast of The Band’s Visit!). Her plays have been performed at Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY), The Player’s Theatre (NYC), and Manhattan Repertory Theatre (NYC).When she’s not writing, she can be found music directing in the New York and Chicagoland areas, and is proud to represent Maestra Music Directors in the pit! You’ll be hearing songs from her musicals “Painting Faye Salvez” and “Noise” with guest performers Pablo Laucerica, Stefan Schallack, Nina Kissinger, and Hannah Taylor! The Women+ Writers concert is this coming Friday, August 27th at 7:30pm (ET)! Don’t forget to RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tin-pan-alley-2-concert-series-august-2021-edition-tickets-165078192317 or #LINKINBIO
Thank you @officialbroadwayworld for this incredib Thank you @officialbroadwayworld for this incredible feature (it’s longer than these 2 sentences!), and @allengraymusicals for having me in last night’s New Voices Concert! It was an honor to share music from Painting Faye Salvez and Noise alongside such awesome emerging composers. You can read the full Broadwayworld article on my website, RachelCovey.com, and check out last night’s livestream on the Allen & Gray Musical Festival Facebook page!
I went to St. Louis and all I got were these gorge I went to St. Louis and all I got were these gorgeous photos of some KILLER ACTORS singing my songs!!!!! One million thank yous to @underthearchincubator for organizing this cabaret of new work, featuring the cast of @thebandsvisit National Tour! Pictured here: the wonderful @sweetnsalty_92 singing REPAIR from Painting Faye Salvez, and the unparalleled @jenniferapple_ singing FOCUS ON YOUR HANDS from a new musical coming your way soon! (On an unrelated note, I want to be her when I grow up).
This ferocious team performs tomorrow at @tuacahn. This ferocious team performs tomorrow at @tuacahn.amp! Watching them put this thing together has been downright magical. Thank you Tuacahn friends for lending us your talents and hearts ☺️❤️
Watching this immensely talented cast of actors fr Watching this immensely talented cast of actors from Tuacahn Theatre bring Painting Faye Salvez to life has been crazy. Side note, who is cutting onions in here?? 😩😭😩😭 #maybeitsallergies
What in the world?! Rehearsals started yesterday f What in the world?! Rehearsals started yesterday for Painting Faye Salvez at @tuacahn.amp New Works Festival! We are so stoked to see the piece in the hands of @jeffrydenman and a brand new cast!
Thank you @wirtzcenter for the opportunity to brin Thank you @wirtzcenter for the opportunity to bring Painting Faye Salvez to life at Northwestern University! We had an incredible time working with this RIDICULOUS cast and creative team. Photos by our hero, Ying Dai (@yingggdai)
We open tomorrow at Northwestern University!!!! Ch We open tomorrow at Northwestern University!!!! Chicago friends, don’t miss your chance to see this incredible cast bring Painting Faye Salvez to life this weekend! Photos by Ying Dai
These are the faces of a cast who finished blockin These are the faces of a cast who finished blocking both acts!!!! 🌞 We open next week at Northwestern University!
What a team. Somewhere in the Chicagoland area, a What a team. Somewhere in the Chicagoland area, a playwright is crying with gratitude. We aren’t at liberty to disclose who 🙈
Name a better duo. I WILL NOT WAIT Name a better duo. I WILL NOT WAIT
On Wednesdays, we sing duets. 💋 Music rehearsal On Wednesdays, we sing duets. 💋 Music rehearsals are in full swing at Northwestern University!
Yesterday was the first day of school for Painting Yesterday was the first day of school for Painting Faye Salvez at Northwestern University!!!! You could say we’re a little excited 🙈☺️
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