MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

Angela is currently the rehearsal/audition pianist at Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway.

In the summer of 2026 she will be in San Diego music directing at the Latinx Theater Commons Carnaval of New Musicals produced by UC San Diego, LaJolla Playhouse and TuYo Theater. In the fall, she will be music directing Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at Pace University’s Sands College of the Performing Arts.

Recent music directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Public Theater,  HAIR at Pace University with director/choreographer Mayte Natalio, The Paper Brigade (29-hour reading) at The Segal Theater (CUNY Graduate Center), Christmastown: A Hallmark-y Musical at Green Room 42, Jesus Christ Superstar at PACE University and Alyssa Payne’s sold-out one-woman show Extra Crispy at Joe’s Pub. She has also music directed various shows for Prospect Theater Company, Teatro Latea, Broadway Housing Coalition, Green Room 42, Ziegfeld Ballroom and The Chelsea Factory amongst others.

As a professional vocalist and pianist, her performing career has brought her to music festivals and venues across the USA to open for artists like The Roots, Típica 73, Fania All-Stars and Tito Puente. She has performed onstage at The Blue Note, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Central Park Summerstage, Tuscon Performing Arts Center, TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, Joe’s Pub, NJPAC, and MASS MoCA amongst many others.

As a composer, she has written for the musicals Olivia O. (NAMT recommended musical, NYC premiere in Sept. 2024), and She Sings Me Home (Featured on Playbill’s songwriters series, 2024 MAP Fund Grant winner). She has also written numerous one-off pieces for podcasts and cabarets, composed for two short films: Chicken for Dinner (Best Experimental Film, New York State International Film Festival), and The Stamp (Best Comedy Film, TOFFF Festival), and released two albums which have been featured on NPR and reviewed in All About Jazz, Cadence Magazine and TimeOutNY.

As an arranger and orchestrator she has worked on the shows Chasing Grace, She Sings Me Home, 4x Latine Musical Showcase, Prospect Theater Co.’s Mixtape Series, as well debuted numerous salsa arrangements with the The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra.

In addition, Angela has extensive knowledge of working with singers, and has performed in several operas including the NY Premiere of L’Enfant et les Sortileges (directed by Metropolitan Opera director Robin Guarino, with english libretto by Sheldon Harnick) and The Old Maid and the Thief (Frederick Lowe Theater).

She holds a B.Mus. from New York University and has also studied latin/jazz piano at the Berklee College of Music and the Harlem Conservatory. Angela is also a member of the BMI Advanced Musical Theater Composer/Lyricist Workshop, as well as a member of AFM Local 802, ASMAC, The Dramatists Guild, and MAESTRA.

Fun fact: Angela was also a competitive distance runner and qualified to run in the United States Olympic Trials marathon in 2020.