About

Sam Kaseta (they/he) is a trans-masculine, non-binary composer and musician living and working in New York City.

After graduating Princeton cum laude with a BA in Music and certificates in German and Theater in 2015, Sam obtained their Masters in Music degree from NYU Steinhardt in 2019, where they studied concert composition with Caroline Shaw and Joan La Barbara. He has spent the past nine years working as a freelance composer, music director, and sound designer. Some of the theaters they have worked with include Soho Rep., Ars Nova, The Dramatists’ Guild, New Georges, Everyday Inferno, Prospect Theater Company, IRT, The Brick, Dixon Place, 23.5 Degree Tilt, Boomerang Theater Co., and many more. He has also been a music curator at The Tank NYC, where he was a frequent contributor to its queer cabaret series Tankaret. Sam also performs as their drag king alter ego Sam Bam Thankyoumaam, who can be found on Instagram at @mrsambamthankyoumaam.

No matter the form, Sam’s experience and interest is in dramatizing the non-theatrical, musicalizing the non-musical, and weaving stories out of abstract expression. They love exploration, experimentation, and the grotesque.

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