Biography of Jay Crowder
About the Artist
MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR MUSICAL THEATER AND TELEVISION AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER: "The Color Purple"; "Ragtime"; "Legally Blonde"; The 2008 Kennedy Center Honors; Broadway: The 3 Generations Concert; "The Lion King." MUSICAL DIRECTION: "Urinetown" (2006 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Direction), "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "A Christmas Carol Rag," and "SideShow" (2001 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Musical Direction) at Signature Theater; "The Civil War" at Ford's Theater; "Goodnight Moon" at Atlas/Adventure Theater; "A Year With Frog and Toad" at Roundhouse Theater, "A New Brain" at Studio Theater, "Starting Here, Starting Now" at Metro Stage, "Twice Upon A Time" at Imagination Stage and "Schoolhouse Rock" at Break-A-Leg Theater. ASSOCIATE MUSICAL DIRECTION: "Mame," "Company" and "Passion" at the John F. Kennedy Center. KEYBOARD FOR NATIONAL TOURS: "My Fair Lady," "Martin Guerre," "James Joyce's The Dead," "Bounce," "The Producers," "The Phantom of the Opera," The Paul Taylor Dance Company, and The Dance Theater of Harlem at the Kennedy Center and "Mamma Mia" at Washington's National Theater. CABARET: The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, The Smithsonian, Signature Theater, Studio Theater, Source Theater, Metro Stage, and the Corcoran Gallery Series. MUSICAL ARRANGING: "Marvin's Halloween Monster Mash"- Dance arrangements for Marvin Hamlisch's concert at the Kennedy Center - conducted by Marvin Hamlisch; Signature Theater- "Christmas Carol Rag;" Imagination Stage- "Twice Upon A Time;"Adventure/Atlas Theater- "Goodnight Moon." TEACHING: Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Levine School of Music in Washington D.C., and Hochstein School of Music in Rochester, New York. Jay is currently the Chair of the music department at
