J. Oconer Navarro

J. Oconer Navarro is an award-winning writer, music director, arranger, pianist, and vocal coach based in NYC. J. is a recipient of the American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant, an alumnus of the Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists, and is widely recognized for his work in Music Direction. Off-Broadway: FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE (The Public Theater; Cast Album: Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom Records), ?iOW@? (Playwrights Horizons), ADDING MACHINE (Minetta Lane Theatre; Lortel, Obie, and Outer Critics Circle Awards; Cast Album: PS Classics), SUMMER AND SMOKE (Transport Group/Classic Stage Company), WE THE PEOPLE (Theatreworks USA; Lortel Nomination), WHIDA PERU: RESURRECTION TANGLE (Primary Stages), TWELFTH NIGHT (The Public Theater/Public Works/Shakespeare in the Park) Regional: MY SCARY GIRL (Barrington Stage Company), THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, RAGTIME (Hangar Theatre), BARRIO GRRRL! (The Kennedy Center; Helen Hayes Nomination), BENNY AND JOON (The Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse), RAIN (The Old Globe, World Premiere), Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD (Two River Theater Company). Workshops/Concerts: The Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film, Theatreworks - Silicon Valley, Westport Country Playhouse. Additionally, J. is Arranger for CAMP BROADWAY, Resident Music Director at LINCOLN CENTER THEATER - Education Department, Resident Composer for THE CHURCH OF SAINT PAUL THE APOSTLE, NYC. Teaching: Founding Faculty, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts - New Studio on Broadway; Faculty, Stella Adler Studio of Acting - Musical Theatre Intensive Education: MFA, NYU