Ellen Mandel

2014: WHAT A YEAR!!! 

JAN: E.A ROBINSON celebration at Cornelia Street Cafe: World Premiere of Mandel's three new songs to Robinson's poems sung by extraordinary DANIEL NEER!!

MANDEL and JESSICA CRANDALL perform Mandel songs at Andrea Clearfield Salon, Philadelphia

APRIL: DANIEL NEER and ELLEN MANDEL concert at Roe-Jan Library, Hillsdale NY----WONDERFUL!!!!!

APRIL: at Cornelia St Cafe, ELLEN and JESSICA CRANDALL perform Mandel's Shakespeare songs and jam with Sonnet Man rapper Devon Glover!

MAY:…

MANDEL received a Scenie Award for her music for TOP GIRLS at Antaeus 

plus award nominations:  

DEATH OF A SALESMAN,  DRAMA DESK nominee for Best Revival:

Sound design by Ellen Mandel  

NYIT Awards: Music/Sound Design for Phoenix Theater's Don Juan in Hell and Medea 

NH Theatre Awards: Sound design/original music:

Measure for Measure, The Voysey Inheritance and Charley's Aunt,  

Musical Director: Patsy Cline 

ELLEN MANDEL WITH JESSICA CRANDALL AND MICHAEL LYDON

AT CORNELIA STREET CAFE in AUGUST 2018 was a total SMASH!!!

SONGS ON A SUMMER NIGHT JUNE 26! 

JESSICA CRANDALL sang songs by ELLEN MANDEL

with special guest violinist MELANIE HASKINS!!

A GREAT SHOW!

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THE LITTLE FOXES at the Antaeus Theater in L.A. fall 2018 featured music by Ellen Mandel--Ellen's third…

ARTURO UI, one of 2016's Top Ten Theatre Guide shows!!!  

Mandel composed and played the music live, created sound design, did live Foley effects, and even played a couple of roles!!

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Ellen Mandel performed with Michael Lydon and Jessica Crandall

at Roe-Jan Community Library April 2016!! a smash success!!

Killer singers Lisa Flanagan and Steven Herring sang Mandel's art songs

at Cornelia Street Cafe in April 2016!!!   FABULOUS!!

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Mandel's music at CORNELIA ST CAFE!!! ELLEN MANDEL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, with Daniel Neer and Jessica Crandall plus actors Paul Hecht and Kim Sykes, THE CAT AND THE MOON, CD release concert and STANLEY KUNITZ celebration with DANIEL NEER, W B YEATS Celebration, with tenor MICHAEL SLATTERY and violinist Urara Mogi ******************************************************************************************************************************** DANIEL NEER also sang music by ELLEN MANDEL at NEW GALLERY…

Arkansas Rep's September production of Henry V, directed by Robert Hupp, featured new original music by Ellen Mandel!

FOUR SONGS by ELLEN MANDEL in PRESENT LAUGHTER at the PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS, WERE GREAT HITS!! HILARIOUS SHOW, BRILLIANT CAST, GREAT DIRECTION, FABULOUS MUSIC AND SINGING!!!!!! Ellen performed, arranged, and musical directed Gus Kaikkonen's adaptation of LITTLE MEN, also at the Players.

RECENT SHOWS with music by Ellen Mandel: RUTHERFORD AND SON at the Mint Theatre, RUMPLESTILTSKIN and THE TOYMAKER'S APPRENTICE, books by Kathy Menino, music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel at the Wild Project, AGAMEMNON HOME, by Glyn Maxwell, and ART, produced by Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and SONGS IN THE KEY OF GIGGLES, a program of Ellen's songs for Puss in Boots, Three Pigs, Toymaker's Apprentice, and Little Red.

THOMAS HARDY Celebration and OGDEN NASH BIRTHDAY BASH at Cornelia St Cafe, with Paul Hecht, Bob Kaliban, Dee Nelson, Sandra Shipley and Paul O'Brien, and Daniel Neer and Jessica Crandall singing new songs by Ellen Mandel to Hardy's and Nash's poems!! FABULOUS EVENINGS! Ellen has written 5 Thomas Hardy settings!

PUSS IN BOOTS, with music and lyrics by Ellen Mandel, book by Kathy Menino, was a smash hit at the Peterborough Players this summer! Artistic director Gus Kaikkonen directed an excellent cast---we added a Supremes-like Greek chorus and a big song and dance number, leading to a vibrant finale filled with counterpoint and fun!