Stephen Purdy

Stephen Purdy (born 1971 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is an American conductor/pianist and vocal coach for broadway musicals and broadway actors. Before joining Broadway, Purdy worked as a Wall street broker.cite web | url = http://www.frankensteinthemusical.com/team_Purdy.html | title = Stephen Purdy, Music Director | work = Frankenstein the Musical | accessdate = 2008-04-25 ]

Purdy studied vocal performance and piano at the University of Mississippi and at The Juilliard School. Purdy spent many years in Europe conducting and playing tours of the musical productions of "Grease", "A Chorus Line", "42nd Street", and with "Grease" in Paris, France.

His work on Broadway includes Disney's "Tarzan", "Glory Days", "Peter Pan" (starring Cathy Rigby), the original "Fantasticks" and the off-Broadway production of "Frankenstein" with Hunter Foster.Purdy has also toured the United States with the Broadway Musicals THE FULL MONTY, SPELLING BEE, and PETER PAN

As a vocal coach he has trained many of the Broadway elite including Tony and Oscar award winners, maintains a private studio for voice coaching in Manhattan, and makes regularcontributions to master classes at Universities and performing arts groups across the country.

His regional theatre credits include North Shore Music Theatre, Ogunquit, Helen Hayes, KC Starlight, The Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons and others

Stephen Purdy lives in New York City.

References