Sean Mayes
Biography
Sean Mayes is a New York City and Toronto-based music director. As an MD & conductor, his work has involved productions on stages across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He is an active member of the Broadway community as an MD, orchestrator-arranger, vocal coach, accompanist & pit musician. In Spring 2019, Mr Mayes was Music Director and Conductor of the all-Canadian premiere of The Color Purple. As an author, Mr Mayes has published on the role of Black music directors on Broadway (Reframing the Musical, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and the retracing of Black practitioners through British musical theatre history (An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre, Bloomsbury, 2021).
Professional Experience
- Broadway
- Off Broadway
- Regional
- Concerts/Cabaret
- Education
- Tours
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
- Canada
Hireable as
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
- Music Director/Conductor (Not Pianist)
- Vocal Director and/or Choral Prep
- Music Assistant
- Orchestrator
- Vocal Arranger
- Dance Arranger
- Incidental Music Composer/Arranger
- Music Transcriber
- Pit Musician (Keyboards)
- Audition Pianist
- Class/Voice Lesson/Rehearsal Pianist
My Primary Instrument
- Piano
My Instruments
- Organ
- Piano
- Synth - keyboards
- Voice
Software
- Finale
- Logic
- MainStage
- Pro-Tools
- Sibelius
Affiliations
- THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS (AFM)
Pronouns
- He/Him