Tyler Driskill

Assistant Professor of Music

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Bio

TYLER DRISKILL is an assistant professor of music in the Department of Musical Theatre at the University of Michigan’s SMTD. Having served over 20 years as a collaborative pianist for the U-M Departments of Musical Theatre and Dance, Tyler has enjoyed an extensive and varied career as a music director, conductor, arranger, vocal coach, and educator. Recent music direction credits include She Loves Me (Sydney Morton, dir.), Titanic (André Garner, dir.), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Vincent J. Cardinal, dir.) for the University of Michigan and Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Always Patsy Cline, and Mamma Mia for the Encore Musical Theatre Company. Detroit Cabaret 313 appearances include performances with Eden Espinosa and Tony Award-winner Matt Doyle and the 2023 and 2024 editions of Lost in Ann Arbor. Tyler is a frequent performer at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor, most recently participating in the inaugural lecture/concert series on the writers of the Great American Songbook alongside former MT Emeritus Chair and Professor Brent Wagner. He has also presented tribute concerts to Barbra Streisand and Peggy Lee with Broadway artist and fellow U-M MT faculty member, Chelsea Packard. Additional music direction credits include Hair (Linda Goodrich and Justin Keyes, directors) and Sweet Charity (Mark Madama, dir.) for the University of Michigan, and, for the Encore Musical Theatre Company, Fun Home (Vincent J. Cardinal, dir.), Brigadoon (Wilde Award nomination for Best Music Direction), West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Assassins (Wilde Award for Best Music Direction), Into the Woods (Wilde Award for Best Music Direction), My Fair Lady (Tony Walton, dir.), Into the Wild (Developmental Premiere, Mia Walker, dir.), Sondheim on Sondheim, and An Evening with Jeremy Jordan. Tyler has performed with Anna Zavelson at 54 Below in New York City as well as Broadway veterans Christiane Noll and Jamie Laverdiere at the historic Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colorado.