Her Story

Beth Falcone is a New York based pianist, conductor, composer-lyricist, and certified vocologist. Her musical, Wanda’s World, was produced off-Broadway at the 45th St. Theater (Amas, in association with Terry Schnuck) received two Lortel Award nominations, including best musical, a Drama Desk Award nomination for best book, and she is a Kleban prize winner (garnering $100,000) for Most Promising Lyricist in American Musical Theater. The show was released on Broadway Records in December of 2019 with album producer Michal J. Moritz, Jr. and has been licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Learn more at WandasWorldMusical.com

Beth is currently working on a commission from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Fall Risk the musical, the story of an inpiring, gifted young woman who has not only survived but thrived despite her diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis. She is also working on a one woman show: “Stupid Shoes”, mentored by Gretchen Cryer.

Beth has been featured in the annual Bound for Broadway (Merkin Hall), Lincoln Center Library’s Future Broadway Songbook Series, Manhattan Musical Theatre Lab, the O’Neill Summer Theater Gala, and her song, “We Choose Love”, was performed at the Pennzylvania Inaugural Ball in 2009.

She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Songwriting Workshop, Librettists Workshop, a Dramatist’s Guild Fellow, and she is the recipient of the Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement. She was most recently featured on Between the Lines radio show, and her music has been published at ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com and TRW (Theatrical Rights Worldwide.) Beth is a proud member of MAESTRA, Dramatists Guild, and BMI.

Beth is a singing technique teacher, a certified Vocologist (Summer Vocology Institute, University of Utah), and her pitch matching method, designed for those who believe they are tone deaf, is the subject of a research study with Dr. Monica McHenry at New York Medical College. She has given numerous masterclasses around the world and the United States on vocal health, basic vocal anatomy, mechanics and technique, specializing in classic musical theater and CCM styles (Contemporary Commercial Music). She is writing a book: “Life’s a Pitch and Then You Sping, a Pitch Tutor’s Toolkit” specifically to help her fellow teachers with those “pitch challenged” students who happen to cross their studio doors. The book is due to be finished by November of 2023. If you know anyone who can’t carry a tune, or thinks they can’t, please sign up for her email list to learn more about the study!

Beth is a proud member of NYSTA, NATS, Voice Foundation, PAVA (Pan American Vocology Association), and the VoiceCare Network. Fun fact: She was a music assistant on Broadway’s Lion King .an vocally transcribed Lebo Morake’s original Grasslands, taught to the cast right in the room!