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Alan Johnson

The Sound of a Voice (Music Director/Conductor). A.R.T.: The Mysteries and What's So Funny? and Punch and Judy Get Divorced (Music Director). Conducted opera and music-theater premieres by composers Philip Glass, Polly Pen, Dan Moses Schreier, Tina Davidson, John Duffy, Leroy Jenkins, Michael John LaChiusa, Edward Barnes, Jonathan Dove, and John Moran. Productions: In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company), The Three Willies (the Kitchen), The Night Governess (McCarter Theatre), The Shoulder (Long Wharf Theatre), Billy and Zelda (Opera Delaware), Black Water (Prince Theater), Cymbeline, Henry IV Parts I and II, All's Well That Ends Well, First Lady Suite (New York Shakespeare Festival), The Manson Family (Lincoln Center), Bed and Sofa (Vineyard Theatre). Vocal coach and pianist: premieres of Glass's Orphée, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Hydrogen Jukebox, La Belle et la Bête; Anthony Davis's Amistad and Tania; Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins; John Adams' Nixon in China. Solo and joint recitals: Walker Art Center, Diverseworks, Dia Center for the Arts, Alice Tully Hall, the Kitchen. 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Music Direction. Degrees in music from University of Illinois, University of Miami (studying with John Wustman and Ivan Davis). Upcoming: Arjuna's Dilemma, an adaptation of the Bhagavad Gita by composer Douglas Cuomo (Music-Theatre Group).

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