MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Germono Toussaint is a multi-award winning composer, arranger, playwright, and producer. He is one of the founding playwrights of the Obie award-winning The Fire This Time Festival, the Founding Artistic Director of A Mile In My Shoes, Inc., and owner of Brown Liquor Music, LLC.

His plays have been featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival, Horse Trade Theater Group, The Drafts Fest, All Out Arts Play Festival, New York Madness, The Fire This Time Festival, National Black Theater’s Keep Soul Alive reading series, and 48 Hours…in Harlem.

Toussaint has also written and arranged music for several off-Broadway productions including Ritual (Stanley Bennet Clay), B-Boy Blues (James Earl Hardy), Sistas: The Musical (Dorothy Marcic),  and Bring the Beat Back (Derek McPhatter), Breath and Imagination (Daniel Beaty), (L)imitations (Marcus Gardley), Hoodoo Love (Katori Hall), The Lost Boys Live at 54 Below (Dyllon Burnside), Two Black Divas and a Band, Through The Ages, The Real Love Concert, Verve, and The Message – an Apollo Theater Music Café featuring Crystal Monee Hall.

Toussaint has received awards and honors from The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Obies, The Puffin Foundation, The National Alliance for Musical Theatre, All Out Arts, The Wisconsin Arts Board, The Helen Bader Foundation, The Center for Performance and Excellence of Music, and Cardinal Stritch University. Toussaint was also featured in American Theater Magazine in 2008.

Last year he was a finalist for The O’Neill Music Conference and the Creative Capital Award.

He’s participated in Tofte Lake Center’s 10th Annual Emerging Artist Program, was a Sheen Center Theater Artist Fellow, a Rhymes Over Beats Artist in Residence, and is a recent recipient of Broadway producer Ken Davenport’s Dr. Kenny Encouragement Fund Scholarship.

Toussaint’s debut gospel-soul fueled album Brown Liquor and Blessed Oil is out now on all platforms.