Laura Burton

 33rd season: Associate conductor and keyboards for Tommy. Stratford: Over 30 musicals, most recently Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Charlie Brown (musical director) and Wanderlust, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story and Cabaret (associate conductor). Music director of The Grapes of Wrath. Composing credits include Hamlet, Inherit the Wind, Romeo and Juliet and King Lear. Elsewhere (selected): Musical director of Rich and Famous (ACT), The Music Man (Citadel), A Christmas Carol (ACT and YPT), The Impresario (TNB). Composer for I Am My Own Wife (NAC); A Streetcar Named Desire (Walnut Street Theatre); The Misanthrope, Don Carlos (Soulpepper); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); Thunder Perfect Mind (collaboration with Paul Gross, Toronto Free Theatre); Cyrano (Citadel). Musical director of Brent Carver’s concerts at Soulpepper. Awards: Five Guthrie Awards (most recently in 2011), two Sterling Awards.