Dr. Michael McBride is a Jeff Award-winning music director, internationally-performed composer, performer, and educator. He is thrilled to return to MTW for Spelling Bee. He is the composer/lyricist for The Boys and the Nuns, which recently had a workshop produced by Cal State Fullerton in collaboration with the Latiné Music Theatre Lab. Music Director/Supervisor credits include Big Fish (Boho Theatre, Jeff Award); Grease (Drury Lane Theatre); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Engeman Theatre, NY); Rent, New Faces Sing 1951, PorchlightPalooza, Broadway by the Decade (Porchlight Music Theatre); Brigadoon, Billy Elliot (Music Theater Works); Passing Strange (Theo Ubique); 49th Annual Jeff Awards Ceremony; We Will Rock You, Legally Blonde, Escape to Margaritaville, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Robber Bridegroom, Jesus Christ Superstar, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Pippin, What a Wonderful World (workshop), Man of La Mancha, Mamma Mia, Into The Woods, The Little Mermaid (Timber Lake Playhouse); The Old Man and the Old Moon, The Boys and the Nuns (composer & MD), Fun Home, Violet, Cabaret, Tintypes, She Loves Me, Spring Awakening, Hot Mikado, Urinetown, Into the Woods (Loyola University Chicago); The Christmas Foundling (composer & MD; Pride Arts Center); Footloose (Wallace Bowl); The Drake Hotel holiday programming, and The Cabaret Project in Chicago, St. Louis, and Lake Geneva. He is proud to be music director at A Church 4 Me MCC in Chicago. Having earned a DM in composition from Northwestern University, he has served on faculty of Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago, and North Park University where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor. IG: @TheRealMcBride TikTok: @pagetostagemusic