ELLEN WINTER (music director/Choir Leader) (any pronouns) is a Brooklyn-based composer, music producer and performer. Last year, she music directed, co-arranged and performed in COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE with Clubbed Thumb Summerworks. In 2024, she released her sophomore record YIKES, playlisted on Spotify’s GLOW. She also music supervised, composed and performed in Ars Nova’s THE BEASTIARY. With her collaborator CHRIS LITTLER, she co-composed, wrote, and directed 36 QUESTIONS (2017) the world’s first Broadway-caliber musical podcast starring Tony winner JONATHAN GROFF (MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG) and JESSIE SHELTON (HADESTOWN). She’s been on the music teams of SALTY BRINE, THE BENGSONS, HEATHER CHRISTIAN, DAVE MALLOY, MACHEL ROSS, MIRANDA HAYMON, and CĖSAR ALVAREZ. ELLEN’s a recipient of the 2024 EST/Sloan Commission and the 2021 Bryan Gallace/Posthumous Prodigy Productions Musicians Fellowship. Residencies include Joe’s Pub Working Group, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, Mercury Store, Ars Nova, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and BarnArts. Listen here: https://ffm.to/ewinter.oem