Sean Peter Forte
musical director / conductor / pianist / arranger
sean peter forte
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Sean is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary musician who has worked in a variety of genres, styles, and settings.
He is focused on creating work that challenges audiences to reexamine the expectations they have when walking into a traditional theater or concert space.
He is currently the associate musical director of Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury's ILLINOISE, currently playing at the St. James Theatre on Broadway. The show premiered at Bard's SummerScape 2023 and was followed by sold out runs at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. (NYT Critic's Pick)
In 2022, Sean served as the musical director and conductor for the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Daniel Fish's Most Happy, a reimagining of the music from Frank Loesser's Most Happy Fella.
Sean was also the associate musical director for the national tour of Fiasco Theater's Into the Woods that traveled the country in 2016 and 2017.
He has worked as a rehearsal and substitute musician for many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows: including Sunset Boulevard, Hadestown, MJ the Musical, Here We Are, Daniel Fish's Oklahoma!, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
Sean is a co-writer of figaro/faggots - a hybrid theater piece combining Larry Kramer's revolutionary novel Faggots and Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro - with Kevin Carillo, who conceived the piece. In March 2024, the piece was invited into the Spring Artist Residencies at Baryshnikov Arts. figaro/faggots has had previous residencies at The Mercury Store and Lincoln Center.
