Sarah Taylor Ellis

staylorellis@gmail.com

Education
University of California at Los Angeles Duke University, Durham, NC Albemarle High School, Albemarle, NC Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies, March 2013 B.A. in Theater Studies/Music and English, Summa cum laude, May 2008 June 2004

Musical Composition
Untitled Jane Austen Project with book and lyrics by Lane Williamson Commissioned by Pallas Theatre Collective for the Jane Austen Society of North America 2016 The Yellow Wallpaper with book and lyrics by Lane Williamson Pallas Theatre Collective, DC's Capital Fringe Festival July 2014 The Tempest with lyrics by Lane Williamson Lancaster Performing Arts Center January 2013 Thank You, Mr. Falker with book and lyrics by Andrew Bentz Charlottesville Catholic School November 2011 Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica May 2011 Intern the Musical with book and lyrics by Julia Robertson Duke University Theater Department February 2008

Musical Direction
As You Like It Two River Theater, music director Intersections: The Music of Ellis and Williamson 54 Below, composer and music director Intimate Apparel Benefit Reading Indigo Theatre Project, composer and music director Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring Steve Allen Theater, music supervisor and copyist A Chorus Line UCLA Theater Department, 2nd keyboardist Xanadu Act III Theatre Ensemble, music director Beauty and the Beast 24 Hour Musical at UCLA, co-music director Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown Pacific Resident Theatre, music director Gone Missing UCLA Theater Department: Undergraduate One-Acts, music director Happy End UCLA Theater Department: Undergraduate One-Acts, music director Is There Life After High School? UCLA Theater Department, music director Cabaret UCLA Theater Department, assistant music director February 2014 December 2013 January 2013 June 2012 May 2012 March 2012 February 2012 June 2011 March 2011 February 2011 December 2010 May 2010

Dramaturgy
Pallas Theatre Collective New Musicals Development Committee January 2013 present Psittacus Productions March 2011 present A True History. Staged reading at the Vineyard Theater, Dec. 2012. Cyclops: A Rock Opera. New York Musical Theater Festival, Oct. 2011. New York Musical Theatre Festival Reading Committee October 2010 January 2011 The Great Game at Duke Theater Previews January 2007 May 2007

Sarah Taylor Ellis

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Teaching Artistry
Roundabout Theatre Company Teaching artist in music composition and music direction Harlem School of the Arts Musical theater program, music director Mr. Aubrey's Show Kids, composer and music director Disney's The Lion King Kids and The Lion King Jr., accompanist Abrons Arts Center Broadway Lab, music director Henry Street School for International Studies In the Heights, music director Morgan-Wixson Theater Thank You, Mr. Falker, composer and music director August 2013 present September 2013 present July 2013 October 2012 May 2013 July 2013 May June 2013 July 2010 and April May 2011

Theater Criticism
Stage and Cinema L.A. Weekly EDGE Los Angeles March 2011 May 2013 March 2012 July 2012 November 2010 September 2011

Publications and Presentations

In the Meanwhile Princeton-Harvard Musical Theater Forum: Princeton, April 2012. Lets Do the Time Warp Again: Performing Time, Genre, and Spectatorship. Cinema Studies Graduate Conference: CUNY, March 2012. No Day But Today: Queer Temporality in the American Musical. ATHE: August 2011. IFTR: Munich, July 2010. Published in Studies in Musical Theatre, Vol. 5, Issue 2. A Funny Thing Happened to the Integrated Musical. Susan Porter Memorial Symposium, Classic Broadway and Those Who Built It: Boulder, Oct. 2010. Those Below Serving Those Up Above: The Carnivalesque Choreography of Sweeney Todd. ATHE: Los Angeles, Aug. 2010. Forthcoming publication in Contemporary Musicals on Film, Television and the Internet, Eds. Aviva Dove-Viebahn and Kenneth Chan. Hypermarketing Dancing Queen. 2nd National Graduate Student Conference in Performance Studies: UCLA, May 2010. Establishing (and Reestablishing) a Sense of Place: Musical Orientation in The Sound of Music. Bruce Kirle Emerging Scholars Panel, ATHE: NYC, Aug. 2009. Published in Studies in Musical Theatre, Vol. 3, Issue 3. Dec. 2009.

Academic Appointments
Essay Scorer, Council for Aid to Education September 2013 present Teaching Associate History of American Musical Theater Winter 2010, Winter 2012, Summer 2012 Deconstructing Theater Spring 2012 Film and Music Fall 2011 Graduate Student Researcher Michael Hackett Spring 2010 Sue-Ellen Case Fall 2009 Assistant to the Center for Performance Studies Spring 2010 Co-chair, 2nd National Graduate Student Conference in Performance Studies Spring 2010 Grad Student Representative for ATHEs Music Theater / Dance Group 2010 2011

Sarah Taylor Ellis

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Honors and Awards

UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship Doing the Time Warp: Queer Temporalities and Musical Theater Peter Matz / Martin Sosin Scholarship in Musical Theater Composition Judith and Milton R. Stark Scholarship Peter Matz / Martin Sosin Scholarship in Musical Theater Composition UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Mentor: Raymond Knapp UCLA Graduate Research Mentorship Mentor: Sue-Ellen Case UCLA Summer Research Mentorship Mentor: Sue-Ellen Case Florence Theil Herrscher Award in Theater Arts Most Original Honors Thesis in English Epistolary Constructions of Identity in Jane Austens Novels. Research supported by Deans Summer Research Fellowship, DUCIS Undergraduate Overseas Summer Research Award, and Vertical Integration Award. High Distinction in English, Highest Distinction in Theater Studies/Music Dale B.J. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature Benenson Award in the Arts Faculty Scholar Award Phi Beta Kappa Deans List with Distinction Paderewski Award for Piano Performance and High School Diploma in Music 2012 2013 2012

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