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Biography

Fahim Ahmed (he/him) is a Bangladeshi-American music director, woodwind doubler, keyboard programmer, and actor based in Cambridge, MA.

Most recently, Fahim was a music assistant for the world premiere of Gatsby: An American Myth at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), working with music supervisor Kimberly Grigsby, music director Wiley DeWeese, and composers Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett.

Fahim has music directed productions of In the Heights; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Jekyll & Hyde, and most recently, Spring Awakening at the Loeb Drama Center for the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club.

As a woodwind doubler, Fahim plays the bassoon, oboe, Eb and Bb clarinet, soprano & alto saxophone, and flute, having recently played for productions of Into the Woods (Bassoon), Jekyll & Hyde (Bassoon), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Flute, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, Alto Sax), and Little Shop of Horrors (Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet, Alto Sax).

As an actor, Fahim has performed in the Harvard College Asian Student Arts Project’s productions of OUT: An Asian American Musical (April 2023) and Legally Blonde (October 2021), as well as Hyperion Shakespeare Company’s production of Something Rotten (November 2022). Outside of musical theatre, Fahim also performs with the Harvard University Choir, Ferris Choral Fellows (Tenor I), and Harvard University Bach Society Orchestra (Bassoon).

Fahim is currently a rising senior at Harvard College studying Neuroscience with a minor in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, and is also a research assistant at Northeastern University’s Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics Lab studying the relationship between music and emotional granularity for his senior thesis.