How to be a Music Director with Shoshana Seid-Green

“I'm passionate about collaborating with diverse creative teams, musicians, and singers, to create beautiful, innovative, musically excellent productions.” –Shoshana Seid-Green

Shoshana Seid-Green joins us from New York City: music director, accompanist and vocal coach extraordinaire.  Shoshana has a great open spirit and delves into what being a music director for the last decade has been like.  Hear about traveling for gigs (not just a couple of places: I’m talking 50 states!)  Shoshana gets candid about finding her career, and explains so much.  You can find her at www.shoshanaseidgreen.com 

Notes from this episode:

·         She’s about to music direct at Sierra Repertory Theatre (Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical)

·         How to prep for a show once she’s booked it

·         How  a music director finds work 

·         What Backstage and Playbill can help you do

·         How being a female music director influences her options

·         Maestra MDs and Maestra

·         What she did when facing burnout

·         How she started to get her first credits

·         How to tell if you’re good enough to “make it”

·         How Shoshana made her first year in New York work

·         What the benefits are of being a hire from New York City

·         What it’s like personally and professionally to travel for gigs 

·         What types of shows she enjoys music directing

·         How technology influences her job

·         Working with Mainstage

·         What happens when a tech crisis occurs during a show

·         What the many paths music directing can lead to

·         How to get a job when inexperience is in the way

·         How personal development works in a field that doesn’t give feedback

·         How to be self-analytical when leaving a job

·         How to practice self-care in such a social job world

·         The Goodspeed Opera House’s MD workshop https://www.goodspeed.org/education-library/classes

·         What happens when you have a conflict

·         How to connect with others in your field

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