Scott Christian

Musical Theatre Presentation 4; Musical Theatre Presentation 5

Scott Christian is an award-winning Musical Director, Composer and Pianist. As a composer, his original musical A Misfortune had its professional premiere at the 2017 Charlottetown Festival. His first two original musicals were part of the Toronto Summerworks Festival - Hero & Leander (2011) and Through the Gates (2012). His newest musical Dead Reckoning (written with Lezlie Wade) was scheduled to be presented in concert Off-Broadway at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club (postponed due to Covid 19). Dead Reckoning was awarded Canada Council Digital Originals Initiative grant, which was used to adapt a 30-minute excerpt for film, to be released fall 2020. Scott and Lezlie were commissioned to write and compose a new adaptation of Hansel & Gretel as well as the new song cycle Red Letter Day for Yellow Door Theatre in Niagara. Hansel & Gretel premiered in 2021 and the filmed version of Red Letter Day will premiere in April, 2022. Scott and Lezlie are are creating a new piece of theatre for young audiences called Nobody’s Children, which chronicles the British Home Children, a largely unknown dark chapter in Canada’s history. Scott co-composed the score for burden of proof with La-Nai Gabriel (book and lyrics by Rob Kempson), which was part of the 2020 Sheridan College Canadian Music Theatre Project. In addition to composing for theatre, Scott has composed for choir, dance, short film, animation and new media.

Selected Musical Director credits include Carmen (Opera, Loose Tea Theatre Toronto), Ring Of Fire (Thousand Islands Playhouse), A Misfortune, Glenda’s Kitchen, The Dream Catchers, and The Voices of Canada (Charlottetown Festival), Once, Shrek and The Addams Family (Neptune Theatre), Snow White (Drayton Entertainment), Company (Theatre 20), Rocky Horror (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Marry Me A Little (assistant MD, Tarragon Theatre), The Way Back To Thursday (orchestrator/MD, Theatre Passe Muraille), and Second City Toronto.

He is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music for piano and composition and is completed his master’s degree in composition from York University. Scott designed and delivered Storytelling In Song – Musical Theatre, a course that is part of Sheridan College’s MASSIVE (Music Applied to Stage, Screen and Interactive Visual Environment Programs). He also is an accompanist, musical director and coach at a number of Ontario performing arts high schools and college performing arts programs.