2025 Spring Showcase Music Directors
Music Directors will be working with casts and choreographers during the first week of rehearsals, teaching the music and helping create the best cuts of music for the showcase. Then, they will lead our live band during the performance weekend, ensuring that music and choreography work in collaboration.
We are so grateful to our 2025 Spring Showcase Musical Directors for working in collaboration with the showcase choreographers to create an engaging series of musical numbers.
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Devon Perry (she/they) is a NYC-based actor, musician, and vocal coach and is thrilled to be joining forces with the amazing Blackbox Movers team! Most recently, Devon has played Carole King in several productions of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical around the country and is the first person to play Carole and play piano for the entire show. They can be seen in NYC playing music with their band Retro Baby. Devon is currently pursuing a Master's in Speech-Language Pathology at Lehman College. IG:@_devonperry_
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Matthew Stephens is an in-demand music director based in NYC. He recently joined the National Touring company of The Sound of Music as the Associate Conductor. Other recent engagements include concert appearances with world-renowned soprano Deborah Voigt, as well as productions ranging from Carmen at Fort Worth Opera to The Body Politic at the NY Musical Theatre Festival.
Music Direction: Abingdon Theatre Company, York Theatre Company,Seagle Music Colony,Light Opera of New York, American Lyric Theater, College Light Opera Company, Fort Worth Opera and Kentucky Opera. Recent projects include The Mikado (New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players), Kurt Weill On Broadway (at Feinstein’s/54 Below, featuring Tony nominee Mary Testa) and Paris Through the Window (Abingdon Theatre Co).
An advocate for new works, Matthew has worked on many new opera and musical theatre workshops, facilitating the development process. He is currently the resident musical director for the composer/librettist duo, Hurley & Osborne whose theatre/opera work The Body Politic headlined at NYMF in 2017. Other notable workshops include Voir Dire (Fort Worth Opera) and The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing (American Lyric Theatre).
Matthew has serves faculties of the Manhattan School of Music’s Precollege Division as well as Montclair State University, where he works as a vocal coach and pianist. Matthew was selected for the prestigious William R. Kenan Jr. Teaching Artist Fellowship with Lincoln Center Education where he developed his skills as a teaching artist. He made his Lincoln Center debut creating an art/music/song concert featuring visual projections and featuring the music of Aaron Copland, Ken Frazelle and Adam Guettel.