Birth Place: New York City
Ellen Mandel has created music for over eighty plays: Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s Medea (NYITA nom Best Music/Sound design), Don Juan in Hell (NYITA Best Revival), Judas, Tartuffe, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Gambler and Agamemnon Home, New Yiddish Rep’s Death of a Salesman (Drama Desk nom Best Revival), also Antaeus (Scenie Award: music: Top Girls), Peterborough Players (nom Best Music and Musical Director) Jean Cocteau Repertory (NYC) Resident Composer, Mint, Arkansas Rep, Asolo. Ellen has composed many songs to poems by e.e. cummings, Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats, and others, and produced five CDs: a wind has blown the rain away, the first of all my dreams, There Was a World, The Cat and the Moon, and I So Liked Spring, and Every Play’s an Opera, theatre music. NY Times raves: Her songs are “ardent, spiky, and freshly organic.” Dizzy Gillespie called her a “Wonderful musician.” ellenmandel.com
Ellen Mandel has written 1 shows including Macbeth (Music).
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