Caitlyn Bogart

About

Originally from Texas, Caitlyn Bogart is a multi-disciplinary musician currently pursuing the MA in Musical Direction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 

She studied Voice and Musical Theatre Composition at the University of Michigan, graduating in 2025. Over the four years, she became heavily involved in student theatre, music directing, and pit playing for over 15 productions. 

With a versatile musical palette, she plays piano, saxophone, accordion, and is a classically trained vocalist. She is a passionate orchestrator and arranger and enjoys engaging with new work and actor-muso productions. She’s orchestrated/arranged for the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, BL!NK: a new musical as well as University of Michigan’s Much Ado About Nothing. She has musically assisted in new work productions at University of Michigan, including Perpetual Sunshine and the Ghost Girls (Shankel/Cooper) and Kill the Boy Band (Lowdermilk/Kerrigan). 

Caitlyn has performed extensively as a vocalist across the US, including concerts with the Santa Rosa Symphony and at the Detroit Jazz Festival. At University of Michigan, she performed in operas and musical theatre productions as well as with the Jazz Lab Band. She was accepted to the Maestra Mentorship Program in 2023, and this past summer was a fellow at Honeywell Arts Academy, working with the Grammy-winning string trio, Time For Three. 

Caitlyn holds a UK Student Visa and is planning to obtain a graduate visa. 

Bio:

Pronouns: She/Her

Nationality: American

Visa Status: UK Work Visa Application in Progress

Skills:

Instruments: Piano, accordion, saxophone (soprano + alto), classically trained vocalist

Arranging: Highly proficient arranger, orchestrator, copyist, composer

Technology: Sibelius, Dorico, Finale, Mainstage, Logic Pro, QLab  

Other: Lyric Diction (Czech, German, French, Italian, Yiddish)

Previous Qualifications: BMA Voice Performance & minor Musical Theatre Composition at the University of Michigan 

Work Experience:

Associate Musical Director/Arranger, Amélie: The Musical (actor-muso), RCS (dir. Tom Cooper)

Musical Director/Arranger, Merrily We Roll Along, RCS (dir. Tom Cooper)

Assistant Musical Director, Kill The Boy Band (workshop, Kerrigan/Lowdermilk), University of Michigan (Dir. Lorin Latarro) 

Music Assistant, Perpetual Sunshine and the Ghost Girls (workshop, Lynne Shankel/ Sarah Cooper), University of Michigan (Dir. Ann Yee)

Assistant Musical Director/Keys III/Vocalist/Orchestrator, Summertime!, Transcendence Theatre Co (Dir. Tony Gonzalez) 

Assistant Musical Director/Keys III /Orchestrator, Dancing In The Street, Transcendence Theatre Co (Dir. Tony Gonzalez) 

Musical Director/Arranger, Indecent, University of Michigan

Musical Director, Catch Me If You Can, University of Michigan

Other Experience:

Orchestrator, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (2024-2025)

Lead Vocalist/Copyist, Jazz Lab Band (University of Michigan, Dir. Dennis E. Wilson), (2022-2025)

Maestra Mentorship, Mentee (Mentor; Andrea Grody), (2023)