About

Bio: Casey Reed is a versatile music director, pianist, and conductor for musical theatre who prides himself on being a style chameleon. He is based in New York City and works regularly for vocal studios, master classes, universities, and actors. Select professional credits include Miss Saigon (Broadway), Half Time (Paper Mill Playhouse), Working (Berkshire Theatre Group), and Pharma Bro (Off-Broadway). At CCM, he music directed, conducted, or played for the shows Once on This Island, …Spelling Bee, Sweet Charity, Flaherty at Carnegie Hall, Cinderella, She Loves Me, and Something Rotten! He has music directed at NYU, Skidmore College, CAP21, and Northwestern. See resume for further credits.

Casey is also a dedicated teaching artist, coaching young people and occasionally directing. Even after working with many Tony winners and musical theatre legends, his favorite theatrical experience was directing and music directing a middle school production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Young at Arts). He plans to continue a balanced career between the excellence of professional theatre and the pure joy he experiences while educating young people.

Artistically, he is inspired by the work of Stephen Sondheim, Frédéric Chopin, and Tim Robinson. He has a Master of Music in orchestral conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where he was a graduate assistant in theatre music direction. For his undergrad, he went to Northwestern University where he received a B.A. in theatre with a minor in economics. He loves baseball, Nintendo, and his dog George, who was named after Sondheim’s masterpiece, of course!

Casey’s 2016 research paper on Broadway music direction can be found at this link.