MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Marisa is currently Director of Choral Music at the Peddie School in Hightstown, NJ, where she also music directs multiple student productions and cabarets each year. She is also an active local music director and pit musician, working regularly with interACT Productions (Maplewood/South Orange) and Brick Children’s Community Theatre as well as various school and community productions. She has served as AMD and rehearsal accompanist for productions of Patience and Princess Ida at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England and will return there in 2021 to music direct The Grand Duke. Marisa is originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio and has studied at Harvard University, the Yale School of Music, and Louisiana State University, as well as the Goodspeed Music Direction Intensive.