Marisa Michelson received a 2011 Jonathan Larson Award and was the only women to receive a 2009 "American Musical Voices: The Next Generation" Award from the Shen Family Foundation. Her music-theatre work includes book and music for Tamar and the River (workshop production in July 2010 at the Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA, and is slated for a full production in Signature’s 2012 season); Still Life with Toe Shoes (Old Deerfield Productions; Musical Theatre Society of Emerson College); Hotel Sarajevo (CAP 21, hotInk Festival, Smith College); and commissioned one-acts (with Rinne Groff and Joshua H. Cohen) for NYC's Prospect Theatre Company. In May, 2010, Marisa was commissioned with playwright Jason Grote by Montclair University’s New Works Institute to write Scheherezade - a musical adaptation of Jason Grote’s play, 1001, She is the winner of the 2006 St. Botolph Award for Composition and a Global Arts Village grant to study Indian Hindustani Singing in India. Marisa has been a proud participant in the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, Theatreworks Palo Alto’s 2011 writers residency, and Earthdance’s 2011 “eMerge” interdisciplinary artists residency in Western Massachusetts. Marisa sang with Meredith Monk in Songs of Ascension at BAM, and in Daria Fain’s Phoneme Choir. When not composing, Marisa has the most wonderful job teaching singing and piano to adults and young people. For more about Marisa as a teacher, click here. Marisa lives in Washington Heights.