Sean Peter Forte
musical director / conductor / pianist / arranger
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Sean is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary musician and performer who has worked in a variety of genres, styles, and settings.
He is focused on creating new work that encourages audiences to reexamine the expectations they have when walking into a traditional theater or concert space.
Sean is a proud member of the understudy family at Cole Escola's OH, MARY!, the Tony Award-winning runaway hit directed by the queer brilliance of Sam Pinkleton.
Sean is a co-adapter of figaro/faggots - a hybrid theater piece combining Larry Kramer's revolutionary novel Faggots and Mozart's masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro - with Kevin Carillo, who conceived the piece. The show was at Baryshnikov Arts in fall 2025. figaro/faggots has had previous residencies at The Mercury Store and Lincoln Center.
Photo by Sam Pickart
In 2024, he was the associate musical director of Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Tony Award-winning musical, ILLINOISE, 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, Cabaret, Hadestown, MJ the Musical, Here We Are, Daniel Fish's Oklahoma!, and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
