2023
Pythio in Head Over Heels at Theatre Horizon
Photo by John C. Hawthorne
2022
Performer, Writer, & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is
with 1812 Productions
The cast of This Is the Week That Is; photo by Ashley Smith / Wide Eyed Studios
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
The cast of The Raven
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
The cast of This Is the Week That Is; photo by Mark Garvin.
Composer, Pianist & Singer in Rose: You Are Who You Eat
in Philadelphia (FringeArts), New York (Guggenheim), and DC (CulturalDC)
John Jarboe as Rose; photo by Christopher Ash.
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
Pax as Adele in “This Is the Week That Is”
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 *
Pax’s “Change,” an album of queer and trans* love songs, is now available on Bandcamp.
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
Photo by Mark Garvin
2019
Performer in LRS: LIVE! The Thanksgiving Throwdown with Lightning Rod Special
Photo by Jeanne Lyons
Performer & Music Director in This Is the Week That Is with 1812 Productions
Photo by Mark Garvin
Photo by Mark Garvin
Performer in Late Night Snacks with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret
Photo by Kate Raines
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)
Photo by Daniel de Jesús
Performer & Composer for Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes
with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret in Philadelphia (Cherry Street Pier)
Photo by Kate Raines
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
Photo by Daniel Kontz
An article about my work on Click:
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
Pax Ressler 