Ian LeRoy is an NYC-based music director, pianist, and vocal coach. Favorite credits include Once Upon a Rhyme (NYU Tisch Drama Stage), She Loves Me (Creede Repertory Theatre), West Side Story (Bigfork Summer Playhouse), Jesus Christ Superstar (Near West Theatre), Spring Awakening (Youngstown State University), Edges (University of Mount Union) and the All-Ohio production of Once On This Island with the Ohio Educational Theatre Association. He is a music director and staff pianist for NYU Steinhardt’s Vocal Performance program, an audition pianist for Disney Parks Live Entertainment and Disney Cruise Line, and he also happens to have music directed an a cappella group at Google. His article, “
The Miseducation of Musical Theatre Majors: Rap Pedagogy for the Stage,” was recently published in the Musical Theatre Educators’ Alliance Journal. He has taught song improv at theaters and festivals throughout the United States, and his musicals for young audiences have been performed for more than 50,000 students throughout the US and Canada.