Kat Cartusciello

Kat Cartusciello is a queer NYC-based composer, sound-designer, and multi-instrumentalist. She is Jason Robert Brown’s music assistant, and has worked with him since 2023 on numerous projects, including The Connector, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, Less, and The Last Five Years. She is a proud member of the TheatreNOW writing lab and has three musicals in development: Nima and the Jenn w/Thalia Ranjbar (Verse-Intro Cabaret, (6/25); Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (7/23), sponsored on Ramin Karimloo’s podcast The Hang 2/23); Hard Tack w/Jessie Field, (Upcoming reading with Forager Theatre Company (7/25), Verse-Intro Cabaret (1/25), Catwalk Writers Retreat (8/23)); and Then She Ran w/ Alex Becker: (Theater Accelerator (5/23) Scranton Fringe Festival (10/22) Feinstein’s 54 Below (2/22) New Studio on Broadway (11/21) AMDA (8/21)). Other Recent credits include musical The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theater Company, 2022); and podcast The Doctor is Dead (Apple Podcasts, 2022), interdisciplinary dance-piece 2.5 Breaths, (Chain Theater, 2022). She has written original music for various works including short-film Heirloom (Winner of Monmouth Film Festival & New York International Film Festival), Village Song (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); and Walks of Life, (Blindspot Collective/La Jolla Playhouse). Kat is a bassist who specializes in new work; recent shows include The Angel Makers (SheNYC 2024 Summer Festival), A Trip To The Moon (Makers Ensemble 2024), Pippin (Pace University 2023), and Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (Piper Theater Company 2022). She received her MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (May 2021), and her BA (Music) from Columbia University (Departmental Honors) in 2016.