Sean Kana
Sean Kana
Music Director • Voice Coach • Piano/Keyboard

2024 PROJECTS

A Strange Loop Regional Tour - Music Director - April thru June 2024

Larry The Musical World Premiere - Co-Composer/Music Director - March 2024

CAST OF LARRY THE MUSICAL performs A NEW HOPE

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Galileo | Berkeley Repertory Theatre - Music Contractor - May 2024

2023 PROJECTS

ACT’s Hippest Trip, Soul Train - Music Director

2022 PROJECTS

Little Shop of Horrors | Theatreworks - Keys 2

Larry The Musical Workshop #2 Premiere

Octet | Berkeley Repertory Theatre - Music Associate

Swept Away | Berkeley Repertory Theatre - Music Director/Conductor/Keys/Contractor

Lenaea Theatre Festival 2022 - Vocal Arts Mastery in Vocal Mechanics and Singing for Theatre

Goddess | Berkeley Repertory Theatre - Contractor

Isaiah Tyrell Boyd Cabaret By The Bay - Music Director | Feinstein’s At The Nikko

2021 PROJECTS

Broadway By The Bay Holiday Album

Little Shop of Horrors - Sitka, AK

Larry Musical Workshop

Summer Soundz - Taylor Iman Jones In Concert

Vocal Masterclass, R& H - Portland Symphonic Choir

Vocal Masterclass - Marin School of the Arts





2020 PROJECTS

Home Hope Holidays: A Virtual Holiday - Broadway By The Bay





2019 PROJECTS

Together Wherever We Go Cabaret - Music Director

  • Featuring Broadway artists Taylor Iman Jones & Isaiah Tyrell Boyd - 42nd Street Moon - San Francisco

Jesse Manibusan In Concert - Piano/Vocals

  • Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco, CA

Into The Woods - Music Director

  • Broadway By The Bay, Fox Theatre, Redwood City, CA

A Tale of Despereaux, A New Musical - Local Music Supervisor

  • Berkeley Repertory Theatre & PigPen Theatre, Berkeley, CA - November 2019

Theatre Bay Area Awards - Music Director

  • Theatre Bay Area, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA - November 4, 2019

 

LATEST NEWS!!!!!!

A STRANGE LOOP REGIONAL TOUR

April 18 - May 12, 2024 | Toni Rembe Theatre - San Francisco

June 5 - 3o, 2024 | Ahmanson Theatre. Los Angeles

SEAN KANA

MUSIC DIRECTOR, CO COMPOSER and ORCHESTRATOR OF LARRY the MUSICAL

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LARRY THE MUSICAL WORLD PREMIERE

March 16, 2024 - April 14, 2024 | BRAVA Theatre, SF

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CHECK THIS OUT! - ACT’s Hippest Trip, Soul Train - SITZPROBE!!

 
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SEAN KANA (Music Director, Contractor) is an award-winning Bay Area music director, pianist and conductor currently serving as the resident music director for Broadway By the Bay in Redwood City. In 2018, he worked at Berkeley Repertory Theatre as the Assistant Music Director and Contractor for the Pre-Broadway Hit Musical, Ain’t Too Proud. Soon thereafter, he went on tour with Ain’t Too Proud and served in the same capacity,

Sean teaches vocal masterclasses teaching the fusion of techniques. His other credits include playing keys at TheatreWorks for Rags as well as the world premiere of the musical Triangle, was the Assistant MD at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Aint Too Proud.

Sean earned Theatre Bay Area Awards for Best Musical Direction for his work on both In the Heights and Dogfight.

A classically-trained musician with a degree in vocal performance from San Francisco State University, he has toured internationally and recorded sound for movie trailers and soundtracks for Pfeifer Broz. Music. Sean possesses an extensive knowledge of repertoire, style and technique and is a prominent vocal coach in the Bay Area. He recently taught applied voice for the MFA program at American Conservatory Theatre (ACT) in San Francisco. 

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