Georgia Stitt
Georgia Stitt is a composer, lyricist, musical director, conductor, arranger, and pianist. She has written several works for the theater, including the two-act musical, The Water, written with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko, and Lizan, with Bil Wright. Her cabaret songs have been performed in numerous venues by singers including Susan Egan, Lauren Kennedy, Keith Byron Kirk, Rebecca Luker, Liz Callaway, Andrea Burns, Jessica Molaskey, Kate Baldwin, Donna Lynne Champlin, Dan Reichard and George Dvorsky. Georgia's non-theatrical commissions include several choral pieces, Let Me Sing For You, performed at The Kennedy Center, Echo, performed by the Women's Chorus at the University of California, Berkeley, and A Better Resurrection and De Profundis, premiered at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as well as a setting of a poem by Howard Schwartz, These Two, for string quartet and tenor. She contributed nine songs to the American Music Festival in Tono, Japan, and served as composer in residence for the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City. At present she is developing two new musicals: a post-WWII story with playwright John Jiler and a children's musical with director/writer John Ruocco. She has recently completed Alphabet City Cycle, a song cycle for soprano and violin with lyricist Marcy Heisler, which was premiered by the New Voices Collective, of which she is a founding member.
Georgia is currently working as the assistant conductor of the Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors and as the associate conductor of the Encores! production of Can-Can starring Patti LuPone. Her work on Broadway includes Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and the national tour of Parade. Off-Broadway: The Thing About Men (Promenade Theater), Stars In Your Eyes (Cherry Lane Theater), After The Fair (York Theater), The Wild Party (The Public Theater), DoReMi (City Center Encores!), The Prince and the Pauper (Lamb's Theater) and tick, tick... BOOM! (Jane Street Theater). Regional: Broken Sleep (Williamstown Theater Festival), Avenue X (St. Louis Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Merrimack Repertory Theater), Anything Goes and They're Playing Our Song (The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Bed and Sofa (The Wilma Theater) and The Baker's Wife (Goodspeed Musicals). She has also served as musical director and arranger/orchestrator for The Broadway Divas in concerts in New York and Australia.
Georgia's work as an arranger and pianist can be heard on the Broadway Cares Home For The Holidays CD (Centaur Records) and on the cast albums of After The Fair (Varese Sarabande), DoReMi and Little Shop of Horrors (DRG).
Georgia received her M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from New York University and her B.Mus. in Music Theory and Composition from Vanderbilt University, where she graduated magna cum laude. She is a recipient of the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Fellowship and the Sue Brewer Award for excellence in music composition. With director John Ruocco, she teaches THE GYM, an ongoing professional musical theater performance class. She is married to composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown.
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