Topher Paolucci is a Brooklyn based composer and music director from Long Island, NY. He has eleven years of music directing experience, working on shows like Matilda JR (Broadway Workshop), Stealing Time (Sound Bites XII Festival – Theatre Now) and Echo: A Musical Quest (The Center at West Park)

 

In 2018, Topher composed, orchestrated, and music directed the original musical Start from Hello with book and lyrics by Michaela Vivona which was workshopped both at Syracuse University and the Musical Theatre Festival in NYC. Other select works include music for American Valentine (2021) with book and lyrics by Peyton Marion and music and lyrics for Carmilla: A New Rock Musical (2022) with book and lyrics by Alex Kaouris.​

 

He is currently on tour with A Beautiful Noise as the Rehearsal Pianist/Sub Keys 2 and recently worked as the Music Assistant on Rolling Thunder at New World Stages. He has previously worked as a Music Assistant for workshops of The Dark Lady and Take the Lead and worked as a Music Director for Broadway Workshop, Triple Promise Academy, and as Substitute Music Director for The First Presbyterian Church of Oyster Bay.

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He has an MFA from NYU Tisch in Musical Theatre Writing and BA in Global Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he has done composition workshops at the Curtis Institute of Music and Film Scoring Academy of Europe, and a conducting masterclass under Ted Sperling at NYU.

 

In his spare time, Topher enjoys watching analysis videos of films that he has only seen through YouTube clips and podcasts where gay people talk about X-Men comics.