Black Founding Member Roundtable

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Join MUSE’s Black Founding Members for a roundtable discussion about their personal experiences climbing the ranks in a predominantly white industry. Moderated by MUSE Directory Member Sean Mayes, this event is open to all in celebration of Black History Month!THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO ALL!Sean Mayes is a New York City and Toronto-based music director. As an MD &amp; conductor, his work has involved productions on stages across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He is an active member of the Broadway community as an MD, orchestrator-arranger, vocal coach, accompanist &amp; pit musician. In Spring 2019, Mr. Mayes was Music Director and Conductor of the all-Canadian premiere of The Color Purple. As an author, Mr Mayes has published on the role of Black music directors on Broadway (Reframing the Musical, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and the retracing of Black practitioners through British musical theatre history (An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre, Bloomsbury, 2021).

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