Brian Cavanagh-Strong

Brian Cavanagh-Strong is a composer and music director whose work has found a place in theatre, musical theatre, opera, film and television, and has been performed in New York City, regionally, and internationally. He composed music for Your Own Personal Exegesis, a play-with-music written by Julia May Jonas and directed by Annie Tippe, which premiered at Lincoln Center in Winter of 2022. He has written music for All Long True American Stories, a five-play cycle in which collaborator Julia May Jonas reimagines canonical American male-experience plays (such as Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Eugene O’Neill’s A Long Day’s Journey Into Night) for other people - mostly women. He is the Music Director and Music Supervisor of ANTHEM, a podcast musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Bryan Weller, produced by First Look Media and Howard Gertler. He has written original music for Sesame Street on HBO, and has assisted TV/film composer Pat Irwin on numerous projects, including HBO’s Bored To Death and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. He is currently writing a new anti-capitalist musical with collaborators Pia Wilson and Ben Bonnema about environmental justice and magic. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. briancavanaghstrong.com