NEVADA LOZANO is a musical theater composer and lyricist, as well as a professional orchestrator, arranger, music director, and pianist. He has served as music assistant for several Broadway productions, including: Oklahoma! (2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, featuring new orchestrations by Daniel Kluger), The Sound Inside (directed by David Cromer, starring Mary-Louise Parker), and Sea Wall/A Life (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge). Most recently, he served as Conductor/Keys 1 for Rent at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Nevada has also assisted on many exciting shows-in-development, including A Face in the Crowd (music and lyrics by Elvis Costello, book by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Des McAnuff) and Joy (music and lyrics by AnnMarie Milazzo, book by Ken Davenport), among many others.

Nevada’s new musical, The Carol of the Bells, was developed at the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals in 2022. It was presented in cabaret form as part of Goodspeed’s Festival of New Musicals in 2024, and it will receive a full workshop in the 2025 Festival.

As an orchestrator, Nevada’s work is featured on the podcast [insert movie here]: The Musical! He orchestrated the songs heard in the “No Country for Old Men,” “Blair Witch Project,” and “Space Jam” episodes, as well as the theme song. He is the orchestrator/arranger for Kragtar! and Moonfaker, two new musicals by the writing team of Kyle Wilson and Sam French.

Nevada is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Advanced) and received their Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in 2018. He was a finalist for the Fred Ebb Award in 2023, as well as a finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant in 2019 and 2020. He has participated in residencies at Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts.

Nevada studied composition with Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon at the Eastman School of Music, and later with Pierre Jalbert and Arthur Gottschalk at Rice University.