GEORGIA STITT is a composer/lyricist, music director, pianist, and music producer. Her original musicals include Snow Child (commissioned by Arena Stage and directed by Molly Smith); Samantha Spade, Ace Detective (commissioned by TADA Youth Theater and written with Lisa Diana Shapiro, National Youth Theatre 2014 Winner “Outstanding New Musical”); Big Red Sun (NAMT Festival winner in 2010, Harold Arlen Award in 2005, written with playwright John Jiler); The Water (winner of the 2008 ANMT Search for New Voices in American Musical Theatre and written with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko); and Mosaic (commissioned for Inner Voices Off-Broadway in 2010 and written with Cheri Steinkellner). Other shows include The Danger Year (a musical revue); The Big Boom (with Hunter Foster), Common Ground, and the upcoming dance musical Girls Just Want to Have Fun for Lively McCabe Entertainment. Georgia is also currently writing an oratorio called The Circling Universe that has been developed at Princeton University.

Georgia has produced and released five albums of her music: Bell Tower (2026), A Quiet Revolution (2020), My Lifelong Love (2014), Alphabet City Cycle (2009), and This Ordinary Thursday (2007).

Georgia’s other compositions include Duet for Flute and Piano, #1 (commissioned and recorded by flutist Janet Axelrod), Fanfare for the Ups and Downs (commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony and premiered by clarinetist Chris Pell), and several choral pieces: With Hope And Virtue, using text from President Obama’s 2009 inauguration speech and featured on NPR as part of Judith Clurman’s Sing Out, Mister President  cycle, De Profundis, premiered by the International Orange Chorale in San Francisco, and Joyful Noise, a setting of Psalm 100 (all published by G. Schirmer), as well as A Better Resurrection and The Promise of Light, published by Walton Music and performed often by the LA Master Chorale. Recent commissions include Do Not Stand At My Grave for the Hilton Head Choral Society and Orchestra and Pretty Women/Beautiful Girls, an arrangement of Stephen Sondheim songs for LA-based women’s choir Vox Femina. Waiting for Wings, co-written with husband Jason Robert Brown for orchestra and narrator, was commissioned by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and premiered there in 2013 with conductor John Morris Russell. Georgia has served as the composer-in-residence at Pasadena Presbyterian Church in California and for the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City. She has performed her music on tour throughout the US and in England, Scotland, Australia, Denmark, Germany, China, and Japan.

Georgia was the music director of 13: The Musical, which was released on Netflix in 2022, and the on-set music supervisor for the Anna Kendrick/Jeremy Jordan film The Last Five Years. She has previously worked in the music department of NBC’s shows America’s Got Talent, Clash of the Choirs, and Grease: You’re The One That I Want, as well as the Disney/ABC TV musical Once Upon A Mattress starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett. Her New York theatre credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway), Do Re Mi and Can-Can (starring Patti LuPone, both for Encores), Sweet Charity (Off-Broadway, starring Sutton Foster), Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and both the 2000 national tour and the 2023 Broadway revival of Parade. She has performed as music director and pianist with The Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. In 2014 she played a nun on camera and also served of the music team for NBC’s The Sound Of Music Live! with Carrie Underwood and Audra McDonald, and in 2021 she made a cameo appearance (as herself) in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film Tick, Tick… Boom!

Georgia is the Founder and President of Maestra, an organization that provides support, visibility, and community for women and gender-expansive theater musicians, and through that work she has won an Obie Award and has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Playbill, Opera News, and The New York Times. In collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda, she and her team at Maestra created the RISE Theatre Directory which seeks to build a more equitable and inclusive theater industry. She is also in leadership at The Dramatists Guild and The Recording Academy’s Songwriters & Composers Wing. Other proud memberships include ASCAP, the American Federation of Musicians (Local 802), and MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity).

Georgia received her M.F.A. in Musical Theater Writing from NYU and her B.Mus. in Music Theory and Composition from Vanderbilt University‘s Blair School of Music, where she graduated magna cum laude. She teaches Musical Theater Writing at Princeton University and has previously taught at USC and Pace University. She is a recipient of the 2023 “Go Write A Musical” Lilly Award, a MUSE Award from the Prospect Theater and an Inspire Award from the Foundation of New American Musicals, an Advocacy Award from Arts Ignite, the Jamie deRoy and Friends Award, the Harold Arlen Award, and the Frederick Loewe Fellowship from ASCAP, and the Sue Brewer Award for excellence in music composition.

Georgia lives in New York with her husband, composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown, and their two wonderful daughters.

1. WHAT LIPS MY LIPS HAVE KISSED (Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay) — Rebecca Luker  
2. HUTCHINSON SONNET (Poem by Henry William Hutchinson) — Rebecca Luker  
3. WHEN I AM DEAD (Poem by Christina Rossetti) — Rebecca Luker  
4. THE TRUMPET (Poem by Edward Thomas) — Tituss Burgess  

SMALL TALK: A VERY SHORT SONG CYCLE (PART ONE) 

5. COMMUNICATION (Poem by Alicia Partnoy) — Kate Baldwin  
6. ALAN’S DEAD (Poem by Faye Greenberg) — Kate Baldwin 
7. THAT LOOK (Poem by Faye Greenberg) — Kate Baldwin  
8. WHY I AVOID EYE-CONTACT (Poem by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz)  — Kate Baldwin  
9. EXTERMINATOR (Poem by Mindi Dickstein) — Kate Baldwin  
10. PERMISSIVE SOCIETY (Poem by Connie Bensley) — Kate Baldwin 
11. CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK (Poem by Sara Teasdale) — Kate Baldwin  

12. LET THIS DARKNESS BE A BELL TOWER (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke) — Hila Plitmann  
13. LONDON (Poem by William Blake) — Marc Kudisch 
14. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE (Poem by William Wordsworth) — Marc Kudisch 

SMALL TALK: A VERY SHORT SONG CYCLE (PART TWO) 

15. BLOODY MEN (Poem by Wendy Cope) — Ruthie Ann Miles 
16. THE TRUE NATURE OF EVIL (Poem by Anika Chapin) — Ruthie Ann Miles  
17. FROM HALCYON HALL (Poem by Margaret Funkhouser) — Ruthie Ann Miles  
18. A VERY SHORT SONG (Poem by Dorothy Parker) — Ruthie Ann Miles  
19. THE HEART OF A WOMAN (Poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson) — Ruthie Ann Miles 

20. BRIEF PASSAGE (Poem by Sarah Ruhl) — Kelli O’Hara  
21. RE-CREATION (Poem by Jacqueline Suskin) —Andrea Jones-Sojola  

SMALL TALK: A VERY SHORT SONG CYCLE (PART THREE) 

22. WHAT HORROR TO AWAKE AT NIGHT (Poem by Lorine Niedecker) — Sierra Boggess  
23. TECTONIC PLATES (Poem by Angelica Chéri) — Sierra Boggess  
24. MASKED BEHAVIOR (Poem by Ta’Rea Campbell) — Sierra Boggess  
25. SMALL TALK (Poem by Mindi Dickstein) — Sierra Boggess  

26. HOLD FAST YOUR DREAMS (Poem by Louise Driscoll) — Nikki Renée Daniels