Andy Roninson
Andy Roninson is the son of refugees. His parents’ stories inspired his new musical Soviet Rebel Girl and the award-winning screenplay of the same name. Awards, etc.: Jonathan Larson Grant, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Johnny Mercer Foundation Grove at Goodspeed, JMF Songwriters Project, Prospect Theatre MT Lab, BMI Workshop (Robert B. Sherman Scholarship; Harrington Award). Creator/host of Take a Ten, the first-ever podcast to create original ten-minute musicals (SoundBites Best Musical 2x, City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting, Samuel French OOB winner). Episodes feature full orchestrations and Broadway voices like Rob McClure, George Salazar, Jessica Phillips, and many more. TakeATenMusicals.com
As a music director and orchestrator, he has worked extensively off-Broadway (the Public, the Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons) and regionally (Park Playhouse, New London Barn Playhouse). His orchestrations for Beat By Beat Press musicals have been heard millions of times on YouTube and in dozens of international productions. He is the composer for the popular Korean TikTok channel @Mosaical and is working on several musicals for production in South Korea.
TikTok: @Andy_Roninson (“Small Moments in Big Musicals”). Watch Tony winner Katrina Lenk sing “Query: What Is Love” and more at AndyRoninson.com