2026

Creator, composer and performer of GIRL DOLLS: The American Musical with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret & FringeArts (upcoming, May 8-17)

2025

Performer & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is 20th Anniversary Show
with 1812 Productions

Performer, Writer & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is
with 1812 Productions

Sabbatical in Paris, France

Composer for The Princess and the Frog Prince at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Performing and leading original music at the closing of “A Journey of Peace & Friendship,” led by Sherri Mitchell, with Land Peace Foundation at the Maine State House

Composer of “Woven Together” for The BTS Center

Composer of “They Cannot Erase Us” for TRANScendent

Clem Hathaway (The Doll) in The Drag at EgoPo Classic Theatre

2024

Orchestrator for Home for the Holidays in the 302 at Delaware Theatre Company

Performer, Writer & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is
with 1812 Productions

Composer and Performer for John Jarboe’s Rose: You Are Who You Eat,
an album release party at Fabric Workshop & Museum

Gardener of Rise Choir at the Fabric Workshop & Museum & Pentridge Station

Composer of “Banned Together,” an original commission for Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus at GALA 2024

Composer for John Jarboe’s Rose: You Are Who You Eat at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Composer for As You Like It with Shakespeare in Clark Park

The Martha Graham Cracker Choral Spectacular at Union Transfer

Vernal Belch in The Ever Present with Theatre Exile

Music Director & Performer for Eventa du Schmancy with 1812 Productions

The Night of 1000 Kates at Union Transfer

Rise Choir‘s 3rd Season

Beau in a workshop reading of The Boy With Sun in His Eyes by Steven Gross

Premiere of Transform, a new choral commission from the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus at The DiMenna Center under the direction of John J. Atorino

Composer, Pianist & Singer in Rose: You Are Who You Eat in New York City
(La MaMa ETC)

photo by Steven Pisano

2023

Performer, Writer, & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is
with 1812 Productions

photo by Mark Garvin

Devisor, Composer & Perfomer in American Girl Doll™: The Musical! at Late Night Snacks with collaborator Jackie Soro with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
(a 20-minute in-progress developmental showing)

Composer, Pianist & Singer in Rose: You Are Who You Eat at FringeArts

Bishop of Basingstoke in Jekyll & Hyde at Gretna Theatre

Smart Home Voice in Eternal Life Part 1 at The Wilma Theater

Voice Teacher for the Wilma Hothouse at The Wilma Theater (January – June)

* New Album Announcement *
dreams

Pythio in Head Over Heels at Theatre Horizon

2022

Performer, Writer, & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is
with 1812 Productions

Performer at Late Night Snacks, including sharing with Rise Choir & Rose: You Are Who You Eat

Performer & Devisor in The Raven
with Opera Philadelphia & Obvious Agency

Professor at Fiddleheart Academy of Witchcraft & Wizardry

Composer & Music Coach for The Tamer Tamed
with Shakespeare in Clark Park

Premiere of “No Going Back” (a 12-minute piece for clarinet & electronics)
at ClarinetFest in Reno, NV
Commissioned and performed by Joanna McCoskey Wiltshire

Performer & Music Director of Eventa du Schmancy with 1812 Productions

Formed Rise Choir, a collective of singers invigorating community spaces with joy

Composer of Ave Maria, presented in For the Beauty of the Earth by the Opera Philadelphia Chorus

Performer, Writer, & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is with 1812 Productions

Composer, Pianist & Singer in Rose: You Are Who You Eat
in Philadelphia (FringeArts), New York (Guggenheim), and DC (CulturalDC)

2021

Performer in Theatre Horizon‘s Holiday Spectacular

Composer and Music Coach for Twelfth Night at Friends Select School

Performer at Theatre Philadelphia: A Celebration 2021

Songleader for The BTS Center Convocation 2021

Vernal Belch in The Ever Present with Theatre Exile

Vocal Coach for Love Notes: A Year of No Regrets with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Guest for the #DComposition Podcast with New Light Theatre

Composer, Pianist, & Singer for Rose: You Are Who You Eat with John Jarboe, MK Tuomanen, & Christopher Ash at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for Works and Process

Artist for Mann Music Room: LEARN Video Series with The Mann Center

Performer in a play development reading of R. Eric Thomas’s The Ever Present at Theatre Exile [dir. Brett Robinson]

Performer in a play development reading of MK Tuomanen’s Night Science at The Wilma Theater [dir. Becky Wright]

Sound Designer for Art House: The Wiley & Santoro Show with Theatre Horizon

Pianist/Accompanist with Jean Bernard Cerin for Zanmi Nou Yo with BLUME Haiti

Composer/Sound Designer for Everybody at Franklin & Marshall College

Musical Audio Engineer for Overgrown at University of the Arts

Performer in 11th Hour’s Sweet 16 at 11th Hour Theatre Company

2020

Performer, Writer, & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is with 1812 Productions

Creator of Change, an album of non-binary love songs
*Available Everywhere*

Music Director of POP! at the University of the Arts

Performer in A Christmas Carol in Concert with People’s Light

Creator of Change (acoustic), an album of queer and trans* love songs
* Available Everywhere *

Performer in Queer Philly Jawn, hosted by The Bearded Ladies Cabaret & La MaMa

Music Director for songs in Eventa du Schmancy with 1812 Productions

Performer in Breath of Fresh Air with Philly Thrive

Vocal Director for a workshop of No Regrets with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Performer for The Bearded Ladies Who Lunch with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Guest for Convince Brett to Eat Breakfast with Theatre Horizon

Creator of Queer Love Songs Concert (Live from Quarantine in West Philly)

Performer in Porch Songs with People’s Light

Sam in Shakespeare in Love with People’s Light

2019

Performer in LRS: LIVE! The Thanksgiving Throwdown with Lightning Rod Special

Performer & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is with 1812 Productions

Performer in Late Night Snacks with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret

Music Director & Arranger for Bye Bye Boobies at Franky Bradley’s

Music Supervisor for Archipelago at PlayPenn

Performer in On Gender and Queerness with Art of the Heel

Performer & Composer for Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes
with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in New York City (La MaMa ETC)

Performer & Composer for Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes
with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia (Cherry Street Pier)

Performer with Monday Night Airwaves for An Evening With Rachel Camp
at Theatre Horizon

Composer of “Time” for An Evening With Rachel Camp
at Theatre Horizon

Composer & Sound Designer for Click by Jaqueline Goldfinger
at Simpatico Theatre

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Music Director of Marie in Tomorrowland at the University of the Arts

Composer for The Best of Cocktail Plays with Juniper Productions

Performer, Arranger, Music Guide
for Nichole Canuso and Friends at Bryn Mawr College

2018

Performer/Creator of Spotlight Cabaret: Art Isn’t Easy LIVE!

Music Supervisor for Mr. Burns at The Wilma Theater

Viola in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in Clark Park
“Pax Ressler’s Viola makes excellent use of the first strategy, exhibiting a deep understanding of the text. Ressler’s movement is concise and evocative, avoiding cliché. As a result, they’re able to project both plot and feeling to the very back row.”
– Broad Street Review

A Non-Binary Awakening in Philadelphia (Howlround Theatre Commons)

Music Director for Bastille Day with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret at Eastern State Penitentiary

Co-Organizer and Music Director for A Breath of Fresh Air with Philly Thrive at the Wilma Theater

Arranger and Music Guide for The Interview and the Octopus showing with Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Associate Music Director for Fun Home at Arden Theatre Company

Music Director, Arranger, & Pianist for The End: A Queer Reckoning at Swarthmore College

Music Director, Arranger, & Pianist for Tingeltangel No. 1: Tragedy Is Dead! at Puer Aeternus Ensemble Theater Company

Music Director & Performer for This Is What You Need Right Now: A Night of Cabaret with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret at The Performance Arcade (Wellington, New Zealand)

Performer in Love Activism with First Person Arts

2017

• Vocalist for Martha Graham Cracker‘s Choral Spectacular
• Music Director for Jenn Kidwell at Get Pegged (November)
• Performer in Turkey Lurkey Time at Nightcap Cabaret
• Performed “People” from Funny Girl at the 2017 Barrymore Awards
• Music Direction for MJ Kaufman’s Destiny Estimate
• Composer of KITH at Keila Cordova Dances (Philly Fringe 2017)
• Assistant Music Director of Cabaret at Arden Theatre Company
• Teacher for Musical Theatre Studio’s Urinetown: The Musical at Arden Theatre Company
• Sound Designer of Hero School at Theatre Horizon
• Assistant Music Director for Bastille Day (2017) at The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
• Performer in Alex Keiper & The Next Generation at Arden Theatre Company
• Music Director for Compressions: An APA Showcase at Arden Theatre Company
• “Arden for All” Teacher for audiences of The Light Princess at Arden Theatre Company
• Music Director for reading of Heath Allen’s Half-Boy
• Bass I in Peaceable Kingdom at Orbiter 3
• Music Director of Andy: A Popera remounted performance in Seattle at The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
• Hollis in Road Show at 11th Hour Theatre Company
• Assistant Director of The Light Princess at Arden Theatre Company

2016

• Performer in Love Is Love Is Love at 11th Hour Theatre Company
• Additional Arrangements for Drunken Disney Cabaret at In Cahoots Theatre
• Composer of Linear Default at Keila Cordova Dances (Philly Fringe 2016)
• Composer, Music Director, and Performer in Mandatory Fun presented by APA Class 23 at Arden Theatre Company
• Assistant to the Stage Manager for Secret Garden at Arden Theatre Company
• Audio Engineer for From Me to You With Love (Joilet Harris) at Arden Theatre Company
• Understudied Victor in Funnyman at Arden Theatre Company
• Additional Arrangements for Arden Cabaret Series: Jeff Coon at Arden Theatre Company