John Carroll (Composer, Goddess)
2025 Season Collaborative Partner
John (they/them) is a composer currently based in New York, New York. He has earned degrees in Music Performance from SUNY Schenectady County Community College in 2017, Music Composition at SUNY Fredonia in 2020 while studying under Jamie Leigh Sampson, and Musical Theater Writing at New York University in 2022. They have been music director and composer for the Fredonia Theatre Department’s productions of The Grapes of Wrath and Silent Sky, and was composer in residence at Avaloch Institute of the Arts where they developed their micro-opera, "Troubleshooting". In 2023, John Carroll was accepted into the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where they began work on their first full-length show, “Orlando”, a musical adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel of the same name. In their spare time, John enjoys boxing and dancing.