Andrew Gerle

An award-winning composer, lyricist, and librettist, Andrew’s works for musical theatre include: Meet John Doe (world premiere Ford’s Theatre (DC), Jonathan Larson Award, cast album on Broadway Records); The Tutor (three Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters); Gloryana (Richard Rodgers Award, Kleban Award for outstanding libretto); La Tempesta (with legendary lyricist Tom Jones, world premiere Tokyo 2019); and The Great Blueness. Concert performances at The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Songbook Series, VH1’s Save the Music, the Kennedy Center ASCAP Songwriters series, Joe’s Pub, Birdland. Opera and art song: The Beach (with librettist Royce Vavrek), New York City Opera VOX series, Fort Worth Opera Frontiers series; Not Crazy cycle for counter-tenor, premiered Wigmore Hall (London) by Lawrence Zazzo. Writer in residence, the Eugene O’Neill Music Theater Conference; Fellow, the MacDowell Artists’ Colony and the Ucross Foundation. He is currently at work on Whisper Darkly, an immersive electro-swing project, with DJ Salisbury.

Andrew has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Artists’ Colony and a writer-in-residence at the Sundance Theater Institute at Ucross, the Rhinebeck Writers’ Retreat, and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. As a musical director, he has worked on dozens of Off-Broadway, regional and touring productions, and has played in Broadway pits including Ragtime, An American in Paris, Gigi, and Matilda. He has served as musical director and accompanist for such distinguished artists as Kitty Carlisle Hart, John Raitt, Jennifer Holliday, Shirley Jones, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams and Liz Callaway. A CD of his jazz arrangements of the songs of Maltby & Shire with vocalist Christa Justus was released in 2010 under the PS Classics Label.

Andrew is also the author of The Enraged Accompanist’s Guide to the Perfect Audition, and Music Theory for Singers and Actors, and was a founding faculty member of the musical theatre program at the Manhattan School of Music, where he currently teaches.