Zina Goldrich is an award-winning composer, conductor, musical director, and performing artist. Her romantic comedy and theatre songs have been sung around the world by Broadway stars including Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Megan Hilty, Kelli O’Hara and Alan Cumming.

She and longtime collaborator Marcy Heisler won the 2009 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in songwriting, the first women to do so. Their musical, Ever After, enjoyed a sold-out run and was the first production on the Coca Cola Stage at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Current projects include a new musical, Stage Mother, with lyricist Heisler and book writer Brad Hennig, and a new revue, #IRL with multi-Emmy Award winning writer, David Javerbaum. Other Goldrich and Heisler collaborations include Dear Edwina (Drama Desk Nomination) and Junie B. Jones (Lucille Lortel Nomination) which ran successfully Off-Broadway, as well as Goodspeed’s The Great American Mousical, directed by Julie Andrews. On television, she has composed for AppleTV’s Wonderpets in the City, ABC’s The Middle, Pooh’s Learning Adventures and Peg + Cat, on PBS. Ms. Goldrich was a staff songwriter for Disney’s Feature Animation. As a performing artist, she has appeared in numerous Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center concerts, conducted the Mazatlán Camerata, and will be a guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She is the recipient of the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Harry Warren Award, a Larson grant, Seldes-Kanin fellowship and was an Artist-In-Residence at Second Stage.

She has played keyboards on Broadway for Avenue Q, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma! and Titanic, where she also conducted. She studied with Jerry Goldsmith and is a proud graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) Scoring for Motion Picture and Television program. Ms. Goldrich has taught at Temple University, and has led master classes at NYU, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon as well as many other universities. www.zinagoldrich.com