Tyler Mabry

Musical Director

 

Tyler Mabry is a Vortex company member, music director for kidsActing, and pianist at Berkeley United Methodist Church. Persephone, his first full-length musical for adult performers, premiered at Vortex earlier this year. He also wrote songs and music for the Barbarella-inspired aerial rock spectacle Agent Andromeda (Sky Candy), which runs until September 19. Other credits as a theater composer include Running Wild (ACT), which was nominated for a B. Iden Payne award for Best Original Score, W. (AJRT) Cuchulain (Vortex), Stuffed! (FronteraFest), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Something for Nothing), and Jive, Kitty! (ACT). He has also composed numerous sacred choral works, including a Christmas cantata (The True Light, with Victoria Schwarz), and I Heard the Voice of Jesus (soon to be published by Shawnee Press). When not in rehearsals and techs, he plays with a number of local bands, including Jade and the Foxtones and These Fine Moments.