Cimmet, Brian

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CIMMET, Brian

PERSONAL

Born June 9. Education: Graduated from Wesleyan University, 1995.

Addresses: Office—c/o Maine State Music Theatre, 22 Elm St., Brunswick, ME 04011.

Career: Composer, conductor, keyboardist, music director, actor, and arranger. Created vocal and dance arrangements for shows on Celebrity Cruises; composed and orchestrated score for Little Star Babies, an industrial film.

Member: Lehman Engel/BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.

Awards, Honors: One–Page Play Contest, best play, 1997, for Clams: The Musical; One–Page Play Contest, best musical, 2000, for The Von Trapp Family Reunion.

CREDITS

Stage Work:

Music director, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Maine State Music Theater, Brunswick, ME, 1999.

Rehearsal pianist, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ, 1999.

Music director, Pacific Overtures, New York University, 1999.

Pianist, Let's Play Two, Altered Stages/29th St. Repertory, New York City, 1999.

Conductor and music director, King and I, Westchester Broadway Theatre, Elmsford, NY, 1999–2000.

Music director, Big River, Maine State Music Theater, Brunswick, ME, 2000.

Music director, Little Shop of Horrors, Maine State Music Theater, 2001.

Music director, Zev, 2001.

Music director, Ragtime, Maine State Music Theater, 2002.

Music director, Jack, 2002.

Music director, Like You Like It, 2002.

Assistant music director, West Side Story, North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, MA, 2003.

Music director, La cage aux folles, Maine State Music Theater, 2003.

Music director and pianist, Little by Little, John Houseman Studio II Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Music director, Brigadoon, Maine State Music Theater, 2004.

Musical director, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Maine State Music Theater, 2004.

Music director and vocal arranger, Senor Discretion Himself, Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 2004.

Music director and pianist, Brigadoon, Maine State Music Theater, 2004.

Also worked as pianist, Taxi Cabaret, Prospect Theater Company; associate music director and pianist, West Side Story and Nine, both North Shore Music Theatre; keyboards, Grease, It Happened One Christmas Eve, and Crazy for You, all Westchester Broadway Theatre, Elmsford, NY; music director and pianist, Smokey Joe's Cafe, music director and pianist, Oklahoma, music director and pianist, Guys and Dolls, associate music director and keyboards, Hans Christian Andersen, associate music director and keyboards, Titanic, associate music director and keyboards, Sound of Music, associate music director and keyboards, Victor/Victoria, associate music director and keyboards, Tommy, associate music director and keyboards, Camelot, associate music director and keyboards, Sweeney Todd, and associate music director and keyboards, Music Man, all Maine State Music Theater; associate music director and pianist, South Pacific, Brigadoon, Cabaret, and Crazy for You, all Sacramento Music Circus, Sacramento, CA; conductor, Evita, College Light Opera Company, Falmouth, MA; music director and pianist, Damn Yankees, Depot Theater, Lake Placid, NY; music director and pianist, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Rocky Horror Show, both Barn Theatre, August, MI; music director and pianist, Guys and Dolls, Marry Me a Little, Tomfoolery, H.M.S. Pinafore, Evita, and Starting Here, Starting Now, all The Theater Barn, New Lebanon, NY; music director and arranger, Rags, Florida Jewish Theater, West Palm Beach, FL; associate music director and keyboards, City of Angels, Fiddler on the Roof, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Cabaret, and Where's Charley?, all Weston Playhouse, Weston, VT; associate music director and keyboards, Jesus Christ Superstar, Secret Garden, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, City of Angels, Singin' in the Rain, It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Plane, Nunsense, The Emperor's New Clothes, and The Pied Piper, all Mac–Hayden Theater, Chatham, NY; vocal arranger and music director, Pinocchio and Alice in Wonderland, both Mac–Hayden Theater; vocal arranger and music director, Blood Brothers, Fordham University, New York City; music director and pianist, Pacific Overtures and Like You Like It, both New York University, New York City; music director and vocal arranger, Utopia, American Music and Dramatic Academy, New York City; music director and pianist, A. My Name Is Alice and Closer Than Ever, both Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; music director, Like You Like It (reading), ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop, New York City; music director, Zev (reading), Starbucks Presents Competitive Songwriting (reading), and Absolutely Anything (reading), all BMI Musical Theater Workshop, New York City.

Stage Appearances:

Tom Satcher, Isaac's Window, 1999.

King Polybus and member of ensemble, Oedipus A Cappella, 2000.

Judge Hazel, First Flight, 2002.

Phil Simmons, Free Fall (reading), Broadway Theatre Institute, New York City, 2003.

L. M., Pump Boys and Dinettes, ME, 2004.

Also appeared as Duke and Dr. Carrasco, Man of La-Mancha, Turtle Lane Playhouse, Newton, MA; Fogg and Quintet, Sweeney Todd, Gallery Players, Brooklyn, NY; voice of Sphinx, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Maine State Music Theater, Brunswick, ME; Voice Not Unlike God's, Littlest Shop of Horrors, Maine State Music Theater.

Major Tours:

Assistant conductor, associate music director, and keyboards, Kiss of the Spider Woman, U.S. cities, 1996–1997.

Assistant conductor and keyboards, Promises, Promises, U.S. cities, 2001.

Keyboardist, Tommy, U.S. cities, 2002.

Film Appearances:

The Natural, TriStar, 1983.

Brenda's Good Week, 1994.

Also appeared as voice, The Adventures of Rad (animated); voice of constable and ensemble, Littlest Light on the Christmas Tree (animated).

Television Work; Specials:

Arranger, New York at the Movies, Arts and Entertainment, 2002.

RECORDINGS

Albums; with The New Group:

Old Hat, 1992.

Blasting through October, 1995.

WRITINGS

Stage Scores:

Let's Play Two, produced at Altered Stages/29th St. Repertory, New York City, 1999.

Absolutely Anything, produced 2002.

Also composed score and lyrics for Trashin': Time to Waste, American Theatre for Actors; composed score, Stop Kiss, Leland Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; The Emperor's New Clothes, Mac–Haydn Theater, Chatham, NY; The Pied Piper, Mac–Haydn Theater; Dream on Monkey Mountain, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; (and lyricist and librettist) e–love, Wesleyan University; composer and lyricist, Starbucks Presents Competitive Songwriting..., BMI Musical Theater Workshop, New York City; Absolutely Anything, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, New York City; Black Sox, Atlantic Theater Company, New York City.