Experience

Tkiya Music

• United States
• Music
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Director

  • Feb 2023 - Present

• Director of Development

  • Feb 2023 - Present



These Trees Grow

• Consultant

  • Oct 2019 - Present

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Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professional Musician

  • 2005 - Present

  Theatrical music director | Select experience: FronteraFest (2019); St. Luke’s Theater (2018, off-Broadway); Long Island Children’s Museum (2018); Vital Theatre Company (2017, off-Broadway); Tilted Windmills (2017); People’s Improv Theater (2017); LaMama (2016); National Sawdust (2016); New York New Works Festival (2016, Best of Festival); Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre (Allentown, PA, 2014, 15, 16); Fort Worth Fringe Festival (2016); West Village Musical Theatre Festival (2014, Best of Festival) Theatrical composer & playwright | Select projects: Wicked Frozen: 5 professional productions, including 9-month run Off-Broadway (2018) and Second City Chicago. Recognitions: Time Out New York Critics Pick, Best Show & Best Score - 2014 West Village Musical Theater Festival; Gruff: 5 professional productions, including off-Broadway, the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, and Muhlenberg College. Recognitions: Featured in the New York Times. The Brojan War: 2019 FronteraFest Fringe Festival; The Utopia of Now: 2016 Fort Worth Fringe; South By South Death: 2016 Labs @ National Sawdust; Grimm: 2015 Muhlenberg College. Growl: 2016 Muhlenberg College. Recording engineer, producer, and sound designer | See below for links. Music copyist | Skills: Expert arrangement, transcription, and typesetting for professional music contexts, including synagogues, theatres, and concerts, in use across the country. Jewish communal musician | Select experience: extensive experience as a cantorial soloist, freelance accompanist and musician, various synagogues and Jewish community centers, high holidays cantorial soloist at various communities across the country, songleader at camps, religious schools, and educational programs, composer and videographer for a commissioned series of innovative, educational music videos, commissioned composer with compositions in use across the country. Show less



Super Secret Arts

• Executive Director

  • 2021 - 2022

  Founded and managed theater company and 5,000 square foot performance venue in Brooklyn. Super Secret Arts sought to make the performing arts financially more equitable and sustainable through an innovative, all-you-can-attend membership model. Ultimately closed due to two COVID waves. Responsibilities: creating concept, securing seed funding, programming and season planning, facilities construction, procurement, negotiation, and management, strategic planning, website design, budgeting and financial management, production, contracting, vendor negotiation, and human resources. Supervised administrative staff of 5 and part-time staff of 20. Achievements: Built a fully-outfitted, two stage theater venue entirely from scratch. Built a membership base of 500 people. Platformed over 150 emerging artists, and paid them all for their work. Received significant press coverage in outlets including American Theater and WNYC. Programmed an exciting interdisciplinary calendar including an AAPI dance residency, a New York Times critic pick theatrical experience set in Central Park, a cabaret series based around astrology, the Secret’s Out Pride Festival, and the premiere of a play with music that platformed the writing of a talented performer for the first time in her career. Show less



The Juilliard School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Development Associate

  • 2019 - 2019

  Worked within the individual giving department, with a focus on Juilliard’s membership program, along with department-wide administrative support. Graduate school position. Responsibilities: point of contact for all Juilliard members, coordinating correspondence, database management, special event support, general support to the entire individual giving department. Achievements: revamped the benefits program for Juilliard members, including the creation of a new tier targeting emerging donors. Show less



RATTLESTICK THEATER

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development Fellow

  • 2018 - 2019

  Worked with the Managing Director and Development Consultant to support all development activities of a venerable downtown institution. Graduate school position. Responsibilities: database management, grant writing and editing, stewardship and cultivation, donor prospecting, and general administrative support. Achievements: helped to secure a $90K emergency grant from the Howard Gilman foundation. Worked with the Managing Director and Development Consultant to support all development activities of a venerable downtown institution. Graduate school position. Responsibilities: database management, grant writing and editing, stewardship and cultivation, donor prospecting, and general administrative support. Achievements: helped to secure a $90K emergency grant from the Howard Gilman foundation.



Union for Reform Judaism

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Staff Writer

  • 2017 - 2017

  Staff writer and editor for the Audacious Hospitality department. Responsibilities: conceiving and writing articles amplifying issues in the organization, ghostwriting for executive leadership, editing and proofreading, strategic content planning. Staff writer and editor for the Audacious Hospitality department. Responsibilities: conceiving and writing articles amplifying issues in the organization, ghostwriting for executive leadership, editing and proofreading, strategic content planning.



Musical Headshots

• Founder

  • 2015 - 2017

  Conceived and operated an innovative, all-in-one self-taping service for theater performers. Responsibilities: conceiving idea, website design, advertising and marketing, coordinating and scheduling appointments, running recording sessions including videography, recording engineering, and accompaniment, video and audio editing, final project deliverables. Conceived and operated an innovative, all-in-one self-taping service for theater performers. Responsibilities: conceiving idea, website design, advertising and marketing, coordinating and scheduling appointments, running recording sessions including videography, recording engineering, and accompaniment, video and audio editing, final project deliverables.



Muhlenberg College

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Music Director

  • 2014 - 2016

  Led rehearsals and performances for summer collegiate musical theater program. Responsibilities: casting, rehearsing, mentorship to college-aged musicians and theatermakers. Achievements: successfully partnered in creating three fully-commissioned musicals for three consecutive summers. Led rehearsals and performances for summer collegiate musical theater program. Responsibilities: casting, rehearsing, mentorship to college-aged musicians and theatermakers. Achievements: successfully partnered in creating three fully-commissioned musicals for three consecutive summers.



Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Faculty

  • 2012 - 2016

  Taught accompaniment skills to cantorial and rabbinical students. Responsibilities: teaching, curating curriculum, schedule coordination, administrative support. Achievements: impacted dozens of future Jewish professionals. Taught accompaniment skills to cantorial and rabbinical students. Responsibilities: teaching, curating curriculum, schedule coordination, administrative support. Achievements: impacted dozens of future Jewish professionals.



American Modern Ensemble

• Musicians
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Manager

  • 2011 - 2012

  Worked with the Artistic Director to support the administrative activities of a New York-based New Music ensemble. Responsibilities: bookkeeping, grant writing, and database management. Worked with the Artistic Director to support the administrative activities of a New York-based New Music ensemble. Responsibilities: bookkeeping, grant writing, and database management.



Congregation Beth Elohim

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Yachad Music Coordinator

  • 2009 - 2011

  Worked within educational program as primary musical leadership and educational support. Responsibilities: song leading, musical education, generative projects, service leading. Worked within educational program as primary musical leadership and educational support. Responsibilities: song leading, musical education, generative projects, service leading.



Temple Beth Am

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cantorial Soloist

  • 2008 - 2009

  Worked with Senior Rabbi to program and coordinate all music activities at a synagogue north of NYC. Responsibilities: service leading, education, administration, creative program coordination. Worked with Senior Rabbi to program and coordinate all music activities at a synagogue north of NYC. Responsibilities: service leading, education, administration, creative program coordination.



Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Reform Congregation of Charleston

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Music Director & Youth Director

  • 2006 - 2008

  Music Director Rejuvenated and led the music program at one of the oldest synagogues in the world. Responsibilities: programming for services and concerts, arranging and orchestrating, choral conducting, contracting, advocating for the program with community leadership, and general administrative support. Achievements: brought innovative, modern practices to the music program. Created new works and traditions that continue to this day. Youth Director Built and programmed a new, sustainable foundation for youth group program. Responsibilities: conceiving and executing a year-round program of events and gatherings, mentorship to high schoolers, administrative support, point of contact for youth activities community-wide. Achievements: grew a youth group from 4 to 40 regular attendees in two years. Created traditions, programs, and sustainable energy that has allowed the youth program to remain vibrant to this day. Show less