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Alan Shorter
Music Supervisor
Alan Shorter (Music Supervisor) has written
over a dozen original scores for the theatre, including Spinning
into Butter, Hamlet, Dracula, The Hobbit, The
Voice of the Prairie, The Troubles: Children of
Belfast, Strega Nona, The Velveteen Rabbit,
and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (produced in
Russian at the Central Children’s Theatre of Moscow). He
has been music director for over one hundred productions,
ranging from Yeston’s Phantom and A Little
Night Music to Aida and Seussical. Alan’s
adaptation of Tomie dePaola’s Oliver
Button Is a Sissy for the concert stage has been performed by over fifty
major choruses nationwide and was featured at Carnegie
Hall in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington,
DC. The concert work was also the centerpiece for the documentary “Oliver
Button is a Star!” produced by Emmy Award winning
producers Dan Hunt and John Scagliatti. The documentary
aired nationally on PBS and has been given the National
Association of Multicultural Education’s Media Award, Action
for Media’s Pixi Award, the National Gay & Lesbian
Journalist Association’s Excellence in Journalism Award,
and Excellence in Media’s Silver Angel Award. “The
Great Ends of the Church,” a choral work, premiered
in Dallas, TX, in June of 2003. That same year, the Heartland
Chorus in Kansas City commissioned and performed “Country
Angel Christmas.” “Changing Hearts,” a work
for men’s chorus, seven soloists, and small orchestra,
debuted in Washington, DC, and Montreal in 2006 by the
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC. In June, 2006, it was
featured in their 25th Anniversary Concert at The Kennedy
Center. Alan is an Associate Professor of Theatre at TCU
after having served as coordinator for the musical theatre
BFA programs at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
and St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. He attended Moorhead
State University, received his B.A. in Theatre & Drama
from Indiana University, Bloomington, and holds an M.F.A.
in Directing from Minnesota State University. Alan’s work
as composer, music director, stage director, conductor
and pianist has been seen at numerous regional theatres
and in national tours, including The 1940’s Radio Hour, The
Desert Song, A Christmas Carol and The
Student Prince. His Midwest credits include Chanhassen
Dinner Theatres, The Cricket Theatre, The Ordway, Hey City
Stage, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and the Tony-Award-winning
Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis (where he was
both Artistic Associate and Composer-in-Residence).
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