Music Director & Conductor

Andrew Smithson (Music Director & Conductor) is pleased to join Actors Theatre as Music Director and Conductor. National tour credits include: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (starring Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young), A Christmas Story: The Musical, Gypsy, Aida (China and Taiwan), Legally Blonde and Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ted Nealy. Off-Broadway credits include: The Wonderful Wizard of Song and Flanagan’s Wake. Regional credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati), Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (Trinity Repertory Company), White Christmas, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Swing!, A Chorus Line and The Producers. Other credits include: music director and orchestrator for POPart: the musical, New York Music Festival; Ocean in a Teacup, Midtown International Theater Festival; and Hard Times, First Irish Theatre Festival. He has been an adjunct instructor and music director at the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and vocal coach at PACE University in New York City. Originally from Cincinnati, he currently resides in Queens, New York.