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Stephen Nachamie*

Director/Choreographer

NYFA: Carrie and the new Movie Musicals, Winning New York, Bang! Boom! Pow! and What’s Left. 

Broadway:  She Loves Me – (Associate Director)  

New York: Little Shop of Horrors – Reunion Concert (with Alan Menken), Small Town Confessions (with Alice Ripley and Daisy Eagan), Buyer and Cellar, My Name is Asher Lev, Rounding Third (Penguin Rep), Animals Out of Paper(Hudson Stage Co) Driving Miss Daisy, Torch Song Trilogy (with Seth Rudetsky), 

Regional: Sweeney Todd (starring Carolee Carmello), Becoming Dr. Ruth (Cincinnati Playhouse), Fiddler on the Roof, Tick, tick...BOOM!, (New Rep), Sex with Strangers, 4,000 Miles (Capital Rep), The Whipping Man (Omaha Playhouse), Lady Day…(WHAT), Camelot, 1776, A Chorus Line (Olney- Helen Hayes Award), West Side Story (Italian Tour). Music City Christmas (with Mickey Guyton)

BFA from NYU. Proud member of SDC. www.stephennachamie.com 

Joshua Zecher-Ross

Music Director

Joshua Zecher-Ross has been an instructor and music director at NYFA since Spring 2013. NYFA: Starting Here, Starting Now; Godspell; Sweeney Todd; Chess; Carousel; Nine; Merrily…; Cabaret; The Wedding Singer; Spring Awakening. Broadway: Be More Chill. Recent regional: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Calgary, Barrington Stage, St. Louis Rep., George Street. We got the beat!

Emily Howe

Stage Manager

Emily Howe (Stage Manager) studied Stage Management at Marymount Manhattan College (Class of 2019). Previous stage management credits include The Laramie Project (MMC), Myth, Mirth, Music (MMC), Measure for Measure (Hip to Hip Theatre Company), Henry IV Part 1 (Hip to Hip Theatre Company), and Reclaiming Our Time: A Musical Revue here at NYFA!

Jesse Desrosiers

Sound Designer

Jesse is excited to sound design with NYFA. They have recently designed Lola with Royal Family,The Trouble with Paradise at Columbia University, Too Much Skin & Electra at SheLA, Fiddler onthe Roof at Friends Seminary, and High School Musical at Heschel High School. They also workas a director, teacher, and dramaturg. www.JesseDesrosiers.com