Dionne McClain-Freeney

2025 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: Target Margin Theater

 

Dionne is a musician, musical director, conductor, arranger, composer-lyricist, and actor.

Recent credits: Co-Music Director, The Gospel At Colonus (Little Island), Associate Musical Director, Actor, The Potluck (Soho Rep and Dartmouth College, Lincoln Center); Vocal Arranger, Composer, Co-Musical Director, Show/Boat: A River (Under The Radar Festival, Target Margin Theater and NYU Skirball); Composer-Lyricist and Musical Director, The Cotillion (Drama Desk and AUDELCO Award nominations); Musical Director and Conductor, When We Get There (York Theatre), Sweeney Todd, Passing Strange (UNCSA); The Color Purple (Cape Fear Regional Theatre); BRECHT ON BRECHT (Theater Breaking Through Barriers), children’s theatre works (Piper Theatre, Brooklyn Children’s Theatre), a song for Viola Davis; and a song on Rainbow Lullaby (Broadway Records), the world’s first collection of lullabies for the children of LGBTQ parents.