Recent and Upcoming Projects
Coming Up:
The Wild Party
by Michael John LaChiusa at City Center ENCORES! (March, 2026)
by Michael John LaChiusa at City Center ENCORES! (March, 2026)
Iceboy! (or the Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O'Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh)
by Hollmann, Reiss and Purcell; directed by Kathleen Marshall
Goodman Theatre (Summer 2026)
by Hollmann, Reiss and Purcell; directed by Kathleen Marshall
Goodman Theatre (Summer 2026)
Now Playing:

(Adam Guettel/Tina Landau) (Lincoln Center Theater - Broadway)
This House (opera)
(Ricky Ian Gordon/Lynn Nottage and Ruby Gerber) (Opera Theatre of St Louis) (co-orchestation with the composer) (June, 2025)
(Ricky Ian Gordon/Lynn Nottage and Ruby Gerber) (Opera Theatre of St Louis) (co-orchestation with the composer) (June, 2025)

The beloved musical originally aired on NBC starring Celina Smith, Harry Connick Jr, Nicole Scherzinger, and Tituss Burgess. Now streaming on various platforms. Happy to be a part of an amazing orchestration team with Lynne Shankel, Brian Usifer and Stephen Oremus (not to mention Phil Lang!).

Sense and Sensibility
(Peter Gordon. Orchestrations: Hochman/Coughlin)
(Check it out at streamingmusicals.com!)

Recent:

by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis
(ENCORES! series) (Director: Teddy Bergman)
New expanded orchestration!

Once Upon A Mattress
(Broadway and LA tour, 2024) (Starring Sutton Foster, Michael Urie and Ana Gasteyer and directed by Lear deBessonet).

How to Dance in Ohio
(Rebekah Greer Melocik, Jacob Yandura; Sammi Cannold, dir.) (P3 Productions) (Belasco Theater, Broadway - Closed Feb 11).
More press quotes:

"...this superlatively acted production is as thrilling as it is bone-rattling... As nimbly orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin for an eight-piece orchestra, under the lucid musical direction of Alan Williams, it unfurls like a tattered flag rippling in an icy wind." (Isherwood, NY Times)

"...even better than the Broadway production I saw back in 2001 - it’s sharp, smart, funny and disturbing." "...darkly entertaining and exceptionally sharp show." Charles Spencer, The Telegraph (London)

Ricky Ian Gordon (composer), Royce Vavrek (libretto) Opera Theater of St Louis
"A Hit is a Hit is a Hit"... a "superlative world premiere"... "taut, witty and affecting" (Opera Today)