Welcome to my Web Site!

If you've come this far, you probably already know that I am principally an orchestrator for Broadway, other theater, recordings, concerts and film. To answer your questions about what I do, use the links above.

Audio Clips on the Discography page! Clips of my orchestrations from various projects in mp3 format. Check them out! Click here.

Awards:
 TONY and Drama Desk Awards: The Light in the Piazza
(co-award with Ted Sperling and Adam Guettel)
OBIE Award: Floyd Collins
Previous nominations:
TONY Award: Grey Gardens, Urinetown
Drama Desk: Grey Gardens,
Floyd Collins, The Sound of Music, Urinetown

Shen Family Foundation
Musical Theater Leadership Award
Coming Up:
 9 to 5 (National Tour) (Dolly Parton; Jeff Calhoun, dir)

Rappahannock County (Ricky Ian Gordon; Virginia Arts Festival)
Recent:

Johnny Baseball (Dresser/Reale/Reale; Diane Paulus, dir. at American Repertory Theater)

The Burnt Part Boys (Miller/Tysen; Joe Calarco, dir. at Playwright's Horizons)

Sycamore Trees (Ricky Ian Gordon; Tina Landau, dir.)

NPR ("This American Life")
"Bet Against The American Dream" by Bobby Lopez
Listen to the song here or watch the "making of" video here

9 To 5 (Broadway)

POP!
Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs
Mark Brokaw, dir.

Giant (Michael John LaChiusa, Sybille Pearson)
(Signature Theater, VA)
("sterling orchestrations" Washington Post)
Recent Recordings:

Scott Burkell and Paul Loesel "Parsley"
(sung by Jennifer Lauren Thompson)

Jonathan Gealt "Expectations of a Man"
and "Stay/I'll Never Go" (Ghostlight Records)
In Stores Now:

9 to 5 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
listen to excerpts here (scroll down to "Shows")

The Grapes of Wrath (Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Korie)
listen to excerpts here (scroll down to "Opera")

Little Fish (Michael John LaChiusa)
listen to excerpts here (scroll down to "Shows")

Hairspray -- The Movie

Broadway Cast Album of Grey Gardens

"Mr. Coughlin's orchestration for "Grey Gardens" is ambrosia — I have been addicted to the CD for months. He has the woodwinds, in particular, burbling and blending and commenting on the songs in an intoxicating way — what that man can do with a bassoon alone. He is a Michelangelo of orchestration."

John McWhorter (Manhattan Institute) in an editorial commentary in the New York Sun (6/14/2007) about the 2007 TONY award for Best Orchestration. It's one man's opinion but makes for an interesting read: Read the NY Sun editorial here