Today's guest is Cynthia Meng, a director and pianist working on Broadway in NYC. We talk about deciding to pursue music, what it means to be a musical director, and how musical theatre is the sum of its' parts'. Take a listen!

Cynthia is a New York-based music director and pianist. She is currently serving as the Associate Music Director for the upcoming Broadway musical Dead Outlaw, set to open in the spring of 2025.


She is a member of the Broadway music team for the the eight-time Tony- and Grammy-winning production of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown. In addition, she has played keyboard for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and has played around the world as a sidewoman and pianist (Hollywood Bowl, Lexington Symphony, Dallas Symphony at the Bravo! Vail Festival, Denver Symphony).

In the film world, Cynthia served as the Associate Vocal Supervisor for Spirited, an Apple TV+ movie starring Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, and Octavia Spencer, as well as the third season of Hulu’s Only Murders In The Building starring Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.


Other select favorites from the theatre realm include Lempicka, The Outsiders, The Jonathan Larson Project, Back to the Future, the 2022 Broadway revival of Company, the 2022 Broadway revival of Funny Girl starring Lea Michele, Suffs at the Public Theater, The Last Five Years from Out of the Box Theatrics, Frozen 1st National Tour, Moulin Rouge at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, In the Green at Lincoln Center Theatre, and Witness Uganda at the Wallis Annenberg Center. In a past life, she was a software engineer and a Harvard grad.

Tracklist:

Joel Lyssarides-As Night Lets Down its Curtain

Hadestown- Wait For Me (intro)

Little Dragon Yukimi- Sad Makeup