Dionne McClain-Freeney
Biography
Composer: The Movie Star & The Mammy (Joe’s Pub), The Sugar Hill Sisters (NYMF). Composer & Lyricist: ”Not So Fair-y Tales,” ”The Beautiful Son,” Rainbow Lullaby (Broadway Records), The Harriet Holland Social Club (Movement Theatre Company), The Taming of Romeo & Juliet, Rice & Rocks (Brooklyn Children’s Theatre), Going Home: Movement of Voices (N.Y. Philharmonic’s New World Initiative), This One Girl’s Story (NC A&T, NYMF, Gayfest, GLAAD Media Award nominee). Music direction: Sweeney Todd (UNCSA), The Color Purple (Cape Fear Regional Theatre),Passing Strange (UNCSA), “Queering The Canon: Kander & Ebb” (Ring of Keys), Brecht on Brecht (Off-Broadway) Spiritual Uprising (People’s Light & Theatre), Black Queens Screen Test (The Tank), ”Turn The Volume Up!- Amplifying Black Keys” (Ring of Keys), For Colored Girls (Public Theatre), The Addams Family, We Got Beth, Billy Ragamatag and the Shadow Circus, Shrek, Beauty and The Beast (Piper Theatre), The Fourth Wall (Off-Broadway). Bring The Beat Back (Polyphone Theatre Festival). BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop & Steering Committee. TGBTG!
Professional Experience
- Off Broadway
- Regional
- Concerts/Cabaret
Regions
- NYC/Tri-State Area
Hireable as
- Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
- Theatrical Composer (Music only)
- Music Director/Conductor (Pianist)
- Vocal Director and/or Choral Prep
- Music Assistant
- Vocal Arranger
- Actor-Musician
My Instruments
- Piano
Software
- Finale
- GarageBand
- Logic
Affiliations
- ASCAP
- BMI
- THE DRAMATISTS GUILD
- MAESTRA
Pronouns
- She/Her