About
Alex Thrailkill is a music director, arranger, performer, native Californian, and Brooklyn resident of 11 years.
His work in the theatre focuses on the development of new musicals - notably Cowboy Bob, created by Molly Beach Murphy, Jeanna Phillips and Annie Tippe, to which he contributed arrangements and additional music. He’s served as the music director for workshops, concerts, and productions at New York Stage And Film, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, Ars Nova, the Polyphone Festival at University of the Arts, and the Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals.
He has frequently supported cabaret artist Salty Brine as music director and arranger for The Living Record Collection, including his shows My Life Has Been Extraordinary (playing Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness) How Strange It Is (playing Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea), I’m A Lot Like You (playing Weezer’s Pinkerton and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly), and Dean. Maybe Frank. Maybe Sammy. (playing Radiohead’s OK Computer).
He has mounted several new and re-imagined works with director Andrew Neisler, including Another Rose, an immersive dinner experience aboard Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady, as well as a re-imagined and re-arranged production of GUYS + DOLLS at University of the Arts, both featuring arrangements by Ada Westfall.
He’s created several performances with the former Spring Street Social Society - including co-composing the score for Secret Supper: The Musical with Jeanna Phillips, and music directing Mermaiden; Or, The Monogamy (music by Ian Axness). Both shows were directed by Andrew Neisler with a book by T. Adamson. Alex has composed, arranged, and performed music for several additional Spring Street Social Society events at secret venues around New York City, and his music was performed in a pop-up performance at the Barbican Centre in London.
Additional performance credits include the title role in Finn the Fearless by Andrew Butler and Andrew Farmer in concerts and workshops at Ars Nova and Theatre Aspen; and performing with the Fresh Ground Pepper company in Camp Over There, a series of immersive experiences at the 2015 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
In addition to work in the theatre, he has recorded and performed music with several bands and songwriters. A selection of recordings featuring his work can be found here.
In 2017 he co-founded Little Bandits, a weekly music class that introduces young children to the joy of creating music together. More information, including the Little Bandits album, here.