ARON ACCURSO

ARON ACCURSO is a Composer, Conductor, and Pianist.  His musicals in development include The Dogs of Pripyat, (Lyrics by Jill Abramovitz, Book by Leah Napolin and Jill Abramovitz) which won the Jerry Bock Award, the Weston New Musical Award, and was presented by NAMT (National Alliance of Musical Theatre), and at the Festival of New Artists at the Goodspeed Opera House; Seeing Red with Joey Mazzarino (writer/director/puppeteer including 20 years on Sesame Street) which won Theatre Resources Unlimited’s 2019 TRU Voices musical reading; and We Have Apples, which won a workshop with Theatre Now NY and was featured on CBS news and in the Washington Post. Other writing credits include: The Trail (music and lyrics by Accurso and Adam Overett) a choral commission from Colorado Children’s Chorale; and a children’s musical, Strega Nona (music and additional lyrics by Accurso, book by Thomas Olson, and lyrics by Roberta Carlson), with “happy, hummable songs” (The New York Times) which toured the