Sequoia Sellinger is an award winning composer in musical theatre and opera based in New York City. She blends bold, unapologetic feminist themes with sharp, witty musical numbers to challenge and explore the societal structures that shape our world. Her work challenges, uplifts, and makes people laugh. Sequoia’s work has been performed at Greenwich House Theater, Classic Stage Company, Ars Nova, Symphony Space, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Green Room 42, College of the Atlantic, Dartmouth, The York Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, and American Opera Projects. 

Original musicals include:  “Next Year in Connecticut!” 2026 Lucille Lortel 121 Project Selection, 2026 Pipeline Arts Foundation Grant Winner, 2027 Syracuse New Works New Voices Selection, 2025 and 2026 NAMT Finalist, 2026 Eugene O’Neill NMTC Semi-finalist, 2025 sheNYC festival official selection and winner, 2024 Newport New Works Festival Finalist, 2026 Matchbook Festival Feature, and 2024 Anna Sosenko Grant Recipient. “53 Months” has been developed with Prospect Musicals’ Musical Theater Lab 2025, Theatre Now’s Soundbites Festival 2026, the Catwalk Institute Artist Residency 2025, and is being featured in Verse Intro Cabaret at Soho Playhouse 2026. “Craigslist Missed Connections” (Weston Theater Company Creative Residency Program 2026-2027),“Earth First!” (Macdowell Fellowship, College of the Atlantic, Dartmouth), “With Each Other Together: Step, Ball Change into Success” (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts) “Silent Springs” (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop), and “Impossible Green” (The York Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory), “Gravity of Me Gone” (Ars Nova ANT Fest). Her micro-opera “It’s Noon, Do You Know Where Your House Plants Are?” was premiered by American Opera Projects in May 2024. 

Sequoia received an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (ASCAP Max Dreyfus Award & Schubert Scholarship). She is on the classical composition faculty at Purchase College Conservatory of Music, where she also earned her Bachelor’s degree. She was a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Prospect Musical Theater Lab Cohort as well as New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio. She is a proud member of both the Dramatists Guild and Maestra. www.sequoiasellinger.com