Ben Covello, AFM Local 802
Music Director | Pianist | Guitarist | Conductor | Vocal Coach | Orchestrator/Arranger
3202 34th Avenue | Astoria, N.Y. 11106 |Cell: (914) 826-1047 | E-Mail:  Ben.Covello@gmail.com

Broadway
Redwood (2025-Present)                    Guitar 2 / Keyboard 2 Sub / Rehearsal Pianist          Nederlander Theater
The Outsiders (2024 - Present)            Keyboard 1 Sub / Rehearsal Pianist                Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
     Wicked (2022)                                             Keyboard 1 Sub                                                                          Gershwin Theater

Tours

Jesus Christ Superstar (2023)     Keyboard 2 / Hammond B3 Sub (April)                              Worklight Productions
            50th Anniversary Tour

Rent (2021-2022)                        Associate Music Director / Key 2 / Guitar 2                        Worklight Productions
                                        Interim Music Director / Conductor / Key 1 (February 2022)
25th Anniversary Farewell Tour

International Productions

UNPATHED WATERS, UNDREAMED SHORES (2023)     MD / Piano / Conductor / Guitar      Athens Conservatoire
            Part of Rolex International Arts Festival (Written/Directed by Whitney White)

Music Director/Instrumentalist (Selected Credits)
Deaf West American Idiot (2024)              Associate Conductor / Guitar 2 / Keyboard Programmer                        
                                                                                                                                                         The Mark Taper Forum (CTGLA)
Gun & Powder (2024)             Associate Music Director / Key 2 / Associate Conductor        Paper Mill Playhouse
The Case of The Stranger (2024)        Music Director / Piano / Conductor             Manhattan Theater Club (MTC)
Maggie (2024)                                        Associate Music Director / Key 2                        Goodspeed Opera House (CT)
The 12 (2023)                    Associate Music Director / Associate Conductor              Goodspeed Opera House (CT)
            Directed by John Doyle (Broadway – Sweeney Todd, The Color Purple)
Fouad of Nazareth (2024)       Music Director / Piano / Conductor / Guitar / Orchestrator                Noor Theatre
Private Jones (2023)                   Guitar 1                                                   Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theater (CT)
Presencia (2023)                        Music Director / Piano / Conductor / Orchestrator                BAM/Lincoln Center
The 24 Hour Musicals (2023)      Guitar 1                                                                              Classic Stage Company
Rent (2023)                                 Key 2 / Guitar 2 sub                                                               Paper Mill Playhouse
Bandstand (2023)                       Guitar 1 / Keyboard 2 Sub                                                                   Theater 104
Hay Fever (2023)        Music Director / Piano / Conductor                Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center
Tomorrow (2023)       Music Director / Piano / Conductor                Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center
The Case of The Stranger (2022)    Music Director / Piano / Conductor           Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
            Part of the 2022 Rolex Arts Weekend (Written/Directed by Whitney White)
Black Swan Blues (2022)             Music Director / Piano / Conductor                                   York Theatre Company
            Directed by Stephanie Klemons – Hamilton – Associate Choreographer
            Featuring Broadway cast members of Hamilton; Funny Girl; MJ; The Prom; Once On This Island
Mr. Burns (2022)                        Music Director (Piano/Conductor) Sub         Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
American Idiot (2021)                 Music Director / Key 1 / Guitar 2 / Conductor            Weathervane Theater (NH)
            Directed by Christina Sajous (Original Broadway Cast – Extraordinary Girl – American Idiot)
Pippin (2021)                                 Music Director / Key 1 / Conductor                             Weathervane Theater (NH)

Cabaret (Selected Credits)

Fouad of Nazareth (2024)       Music Director / Piano / Conductor / Guitar / Orchestrator                      Joe’s Pub
Howard Ashman and Alan Menken Tribute (2023)  Music Director / Piano / Conductor       Feinstein’s/54 Below
54 Sings Lizzo (2023)                             Music Director / Piano /Conductor                           Feinstein’s/54 Below
The 33rd New York Cabaret Convention (2022)    Piano Accompanist                  Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall


SKILLS/PROFICIENCIES:
Piano Sight-reading, Guitar Sight-reading, Music Direction, Orchestrating/Arranging, Film Scoring, Piano/Conducting, Stick Conducting, Vocal Coaching, Piano Improvisation, Mainstage Programming, Ableton, Finale, Sibelius, Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Music Preparation, Music Transcription, Guitar, Flute, Piccolo, Flute/Piccolo Sight-reading, Synthesizer Programming, Auxiliary Percussion, Accordion