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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 made his piano-conducting debut in Hadestown: Teen Edition at Roxbury Prep High School. At the American Repertory Theater, he was a music assistant for both the U.S. premiere of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) and the world premiere of Gatsby: An American Myth.

Fahim has music directed productions of In the Heights; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Jekyll & Hyde, Spring Awakening, and most recently, Jesus Christ Superstar (MD/Conductor) at the Loeb Drama Center with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club.

As a woodwind doubler, Fahim plays the bassoon, oboe, English horn, Eb, Bb, and bass clarinet, soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, and flute. In college, he played for productions of Into the Woods (Bassoon), Jekyll & Hyde (Bassoon), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Flute, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, Alto Sax), Little Shop of Horrors (Eb Clarinet, Bb Clarinet, Alto Sax), Pippin (Flute, Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Oboe, English Horn), Aida (Oboe, English Horn), and 9 to 5 (Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Bari Sax).

Fahim has extensive experience with keyboard programming in MainStage, having programmed for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Keys 2), Jekyll & Hyde (Keys 1, 2, & 3), Footloose (Keys 2), Aida (Keys 1, 2, & 3), Pippin (Keys 2), Anastasia (Keys 1 & 2), Jesus Christ Superstar (Keys 1, 2, & 3), 9 to 5 (Keys 1 & 2), The Addams Family (Keys 1 & 2), and Mean Girls (Keys 1, 2, & 3).

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 productions of Something Rotten (November 2022) and Anastasia (November 2024). Outside of musical theatre, Fahim also performed with the Harvard University Choir, Ferris Choral Fellows (Tenor I), and Harvard University Bach Society Orchestra (Bassoon).

Fahim recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an M.Ed. in Teaching and Teacher Leadership after completing his student teaching practicum at Boston Latin School for high school chemistry. Prior to that, he graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Neuroscience and a secondary in Chemistry. As a research assistant at Northeastern University’s Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics Lab, he wrote his senior thesis on the relationship between music and emotion differentiation.

In the fall, Fahim will be moving to New York City to teach science at Riverdale Country School!