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Original music composed by...

Jan Powell
Composer, musical director, arranger, and actor.

Occasional Theatre is privileged to have Jan Powell join the production staff as Composer and Musical Director for Return of an Angel.

Jan Powell, composer, is an ASCAP member and winner of numerous ASCAP Special Awards. He wrote music for Tom Huey's It Ain't the Heat, It's the Humility, published as one of the ten Best Short Plays of 1982, and words and music for The Ugly Duckling, published by the Dramatic Publishing Company. His many works of musical theater written with Ken Stone are listed at the bottom of his web page, http://powell-stone.com.

As a musical director in the professional theater, Jan has conducted over 150 musical productions over the past thirty years. He is a member of the Antaeus Company, where his recent work as musical director, composer, or arranger includes Trial by Jury, Patience, Legal Briefs, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Dickens Project, and A.A. Milne and John Achorn's The Ugly Duckling, as well as his own works.

Other work as musical director, conductor, or vocal arranger includes Rosenstrasse at Company Rep (world premiere), The Threepenny Opera at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, William Hoffman's Riga, directed by Marshall Mason and produced by Drew Snyder and Venture West Theater, three seasons of A.S.K. Theater Projects' Nautilus Workshop, directed by Ben Krywosz, and The Virginia Avenue Project, directed by Leigh Curran.

Jan has conducted mainstage shows at USC and UCLA, where he has served as an instructor in musical theater, audition technique and vocal production during the Summer Institute program. He is proud to have been a performing member of Actors Equity Association.