MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

John Bronston served as the music director for The Public Theatre’s production of The Harder They Come, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks, which was awarded the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off Broadway Musical. He was also the associate music director for A Man of No Importance at Classic Stage Company directed by John Doyle. Broadway credits include serving as the Black Theatre Coalition Music Direction Fellow at Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, where he was also a sub keyboard player onstage and rehearsal pianist and as a rehearsal pianist at Hadestown. Previously he was the musical director for the National Tour of Hair and the associate conductor for touring productions of Ain’t Misbehavin, Five Guys Named Moe, and Smokey Joe’s Café.  Favorite regional credits include serving as musical director for the world premiere of Zora Neale Hurston’s lost full length musical Spunk at Yale Rep, conducting The Color Purple at The Goodman Theatre, and shows at Long Wharf Theatre, The Barter Theatre, Westcoast Black Theatre, ACT of CT, and Florida Studio Theatre.  New York credits include developmental work with Roundabout, New York Theatre Workshop, Prospect Musicals, and MTF (Musical Theatre Factory).