Music Supervisor and Composer

Sean Mayes

Last updated: March 2, 2023

Based in New York & Toronto, Sean Mayes enjoys a varied career as a conductor, music director, orchestrator, arranger, composer, author & educator, spanning the range of numerous musical styles between Broadway, theatre, opera, classical & pops. Conducting credits include: Hadestown & MJ (Broadway), The Color Purple (Canadian Premiere), and Black Broadway with American Pops Orchestra (PBS National Broadcast). Other credits include: Come From Away (Music Supervisor, Finland), aportia chryptych (Composer/ Music Supervisor, Canadian Opera Company), King Lear (Composer, Stratford 2023). André De Shields with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Orchestrations, Music Direction). Other: Co- author of An Inconvenient History of Black British Musical Theatre & Reframing the Musical (Bloomsbury).