NEVADA LOZANO is a musical theater composer and lyricist, as well as a professional music director, arranger, orchestrator, and pianist. He has served as music assistant for several Broadway productions, including: Oklahoma! (2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, featuring new orchestrations by Daniel Kluger), The Sound Inside (directed by David Cromer, starring Mary-Louise Parker), and Sea Wall/A Life (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge). Most recently, he served as music assistant for The Most Happy Fella (directed by Daniel Fish, starring Mary Testa) at Bard SummerScape and as assistant sound effects designer for Suffs (directed by Leigh Silverman, written by Shaina Taub) at the Public Theater.

Nevada has also assisted on many exciting shows-in-development, including A Face in the Crowd (music and lyrics by Elvis Costello, book by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Des McAnuff), Joy (music and lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo, book by Ken Davenport) and The Seat of Our Pants (by Ethan Lipton, directed by Leigh Silverman), among many others.

As a composer, Nevada has written an album of solo piano music to be used in ballet classes. Performed by Wesley Ducote and directed by Erica Johnston, Music for Ballet Class is now available to purchase and stream on all major platforms.

As an orchestrator, Nevada’s work is featured on the podcast [insert movie here]: The Musical! He orchestrated the songs heard in the “No Country for Old Men,” “Blair Witch Project,” and “Space Jam” episodes, as well as the theme song. Additionally, Nevada is the arranger/orchestrator for Dolo Publications, an educational company that uses songs and stories to teach languages to students of all ages and skill levels.

His musical, Ramona: An American Epic (based on the classic novel by Helen Hunt Jackson), received a “pre-premiere” at NY Theatre Barn in February 2019 and was featured as part of the organization’s live-streamed New Works Series in November 2020. His Christmas musical, The Carol of the Bells, was recently developed at the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals.

Nevada is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Advanced) and received their Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in 2018. He was a finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant in 2019 and 2020 and has participated in residencies at Yaddo, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (upcoming).

He studied composition with Lisa Bielawa, David Liptak, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon at the Eastman School of Music, and later with Arthur Gottschalk and Pierre Jalbert at Rice University.