David Jayden Anthony

📞 (332) 288-8800 | 📍 Long Beach, CA 90813 📧 David@DavidJA.com | 🌐 DavidJA.com

Objective

To secure a leadership role in arts education where I can fuse creative excellence with administrative strength — implementing innovative programs, shaping curriculum, and cultivating a lifelong love of the arts.

Leadership & Administration in Arts Education

Encore Education Corporation — Executive Director of Arts and Teachers (2015–2017)

  • Hired and trained arts educators across multiple campuses
  • Designed arts curriculum and created leveled student assessments
  • Oversaw all theatrical productions (licensing, budgeting, venues, creative oversight)
  • Directed Cats, A Christmas Carol, and Les Misérables
  • Launched a new arts high school in Riverside
  • Built and maintained corporate websites; designed yearbooks and PR materials
  • Registered courses for A–G accreditation; managed departmental budgets

Teaching Experience

The Young Americans College of the Performing Arts — Adjunct Faculty

2010–2014, current
  • Developed and taught courses: Musical Theatre, Private Voice, Vocal Masterclass, Piano
  • Led staged readings of new works
  • Designed rubrics and learning objectives for accreditation
  • Advised on student portfolios, resumes, and headshots
  • Juries: 120+ students annually across musical theatre styles

Saddleback College — Adjunct Faculty

2008–2014
  • Co-created and music directed the New Works Program
  • Composer/lyricist for A Christmas Carol and The Journey
  • Directed Shrek: The Summer Concert

San Clemente High School — Director / Teacher

  • Courses: Musical Theatre Workshop, Drama 1A
  • Directed Spamalot, The Wedding Singer, Boeing Boeing, Mamma Mia

Musical Theatre University — Artistic Director / Educator

  • Co-artistic director with Tony nominee Jonelle Allen
  • Directed 3 shows annually and oversaw production budgets
  • Music director for the Fashion Island Tree Lighting Ceremony

Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) — Musical Theatre Faculty (2003–2008)

  • Music director for galas and anniversary events with Broadway alums
  • Directed Montage ensemble and founded UNPLUGGED (a cappella group)
  • Taught Music Theory, Commercial Voice, Audition Techniques, Choir

McCoy Rigby Conservatory of the Arts

  • Summer Stock Music Director
  • Accompanist for masterclasses with Scott Alan and Julia Flores

Education

  • Berklee College of Music (NYC) — MFA, Musical Theatre Writing & Production
  • Berklee College of Music — BM, Songwriting and Music Production
  • Chapman University — Focus in Choral Conducting, Composition, Music Education
  • New Musicals Initiative (NMI) — Multi-year workshop in musical theatre writing
  • OCSA — Studied piano performance, choral conducting, composition
Notable Courses/Professors: Michael Starobin (Orchestration), Ian Kagey (Arranging), Business of Musical Theatre

Creative Projects

  • ChoirCharts.com — Over 40 choral arrangements used internationally
  • In Development:
    • Blackbird — One-woman show about Florence Mills
    • Two original musicals: Community Theatre and Man in the Moon
    • Musical web series
    • Book on contemporary vocal pedagogy

Skills & Interests

  • Musical theatre composer, choral arranger, piano bar performer
  • Advanced web/graphic design: HTML, WordPress, Adobe CS
  • Software: Logic, ProTools, Sibelius, Final Cut, AutoTune, Audition
  • Mac OS proficient; conversational Spanish