Raymond is a world renowned voice teacher. He not only imparts valuable skills to his students but is a leader in the field of voice pedagogy for musical theatre.

Education

• B.M., Baylor University

• M.Mus., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

• D.M.A. Vocal Performance with cognate in Dramatic Performance, CCM coursework complete

Raymond Sage received a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Baylor University and a master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), followed by doctoral and post-graduate work also at CCM. Before joining the musical theatre voice faculty at Penn State, Sage was on the voice and musical theatre faculties of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’ prestigious musical theatre conservatory, Collaborative Arts Project 21, Inc. (CAP 21). He remains on the voice faculty of the CAP 21 Professional Musical Theatre Summer Institute. His students have been seen in many Broadway productions, such as Follies, Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Steel Pier, High Society, Cats, Scarlet Pimpernel, and many more.

As a performer, Sage appeared in the Broadway and national touring productions of Camelot, Beauty and the Beast, and Titanic, as well as in regional theatres across the country, such as Paper Mill Playhouse, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Dallas Summer Musicals. He has made television appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, The Howie Mandel Show, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Sage is also a founding member of Monday Off, a jazz vocal quartet specializing in vocal jazz with a Broadway flair. Monday Off often appears at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops Orchestra and at many other concert halls and jazz clubs across the United States.

Penn State University

2005 - Present

University Park, PA

Head of MFA and PhD Vocal Pedagogy for Musical Theatre (2017- Present)

• Graduate level voice for musical theatre and associated courses in the School of Theatre and the School of Music

Head of Musical Theatre Voice (2017- Present)

Associate Prof of Voice (2005-2017)

• Teach applied vocal instruction focusing on a technique and curriculum specific to musical theatre to undergraduate BFA musical theatre majors and MFA musical theatre pedagogy majors. Classroom: Voice 113,Voice 114,Thea 497, Thea 497c, 597, 588 and other musical theatre/performance related courses

Tisch School of Drama, NYU

2004 - 2005

New York, NY

Teacher of Voice and Vocal Tech

• Taught applied voice and class voice to musical theatre majors emphasizing the use of classical principles. Also taugh extensive work on the “belt” voice for use in theatrical singing.

• Classroom: Vocal Technique w/Musical Theatre Emphasis

AMDA

2003 - 2004

New York, NY

Teacher of Voice

• .In this professional performance training program, taught applied voice and class voice. Emphasis is to teach classical vocal principles and how to apply those principles in theatrical singing. Also taught extensively with the ‘belt’ voice, maintenance of, and or repair damage from improper use.

• Classroom: Musical Theatre Performance.

Trinity College

2001

Hartford, CT

Adjunct lecturer in Voice

• Taught applied voice to classical and musical theatre students. Approaching the voice from classical methods, addressed the specific needs of the young musical theatre singer and give the students the tools to develop and maintain a solid vocal technique suited for the varying styles of the musical theatre world. The lessons for one hour once a week and a performance class once a semester

Private Voice

Current

The students in my New York City studio perform on and off-Broadway, in regional theatre and other professional theatrical venues. Student Broadway credits include Beautiful, Aladdin, Pippin, Wicked, Mama Mia Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Follies, Scarlett Pimpernel, Steel Pier, Cats, High Society, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Miserables. Gypsy, Xanadu and Grease, Finian’s Rainbow, Chorus line, Promises Promises, Hair, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Soul Man,etc…1900-present.

Master Classes / Workshops

• “Moonified” Musical Theatre Auditions (Dallas, TX )
  2010,2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,2015, 2016

• Florida Theatre Conference (Gainesville , FL)
  2016

• Gibbs High School for Performing Arts (Tampa, FL)
  2016

• New World University of Performing Arts (Miami, FL)
  2016

• Danish Akademie of Musical Theatre (Fredericia, DEN)
  2015

• University of Western Florida (Pensacola, FL)
  2015

• University of Texas at Tyler (Tyler, TX)
  2015

• Houston School for Performing and Visual Arts (Houston TX)
  2015

• Baylor University   (Waco, TX)
  2011, 2013, 2015

• Penn State Altoona  (Altoona, PA)
  2012

• TX State Thespians (Ft. Worth, TX)

  2007,2009,2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 

• FL State Thespians (Tampa, FL)
  2008, 2010-2016

• Booker T. Washington School for Performing Arts  (Dallas, TX)
  2010,2012

• PA State Thespians   (York, PA)
  

• Miami University of Ohio  (Oxford, OH)
  

• Trinity College, SONDHEIM WKSHP (Hartford, CT)
  

• Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, CT)
  

• Denison University (Granville OH)
  

• Northwestern State University  (Natchitoches, LA )
  

• LeTourneau University (Longview, TX)
  

• Theatre Lab   (Washington, D.C.)

• “Cross-training the Contemporary Musical Theatre Singer” (Florida Theatre Conference)
  2016

• “Singing for Musical Theatre” Workshop (Dallas Summer Musicals)
  2007

• “Singing for Musical Theatre” (PFamily Arts Centre, Dallas TX)
  2007, 2010

• Bel Canto/ Can Belto (Penn State University)

  2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 - musical theatre singing technique workshop for teachers taught with colleagues Saunders-Barton, Spivey and Patton

Administration and Producing

Founder and Artistic Director, The Penn State NU Musical Theatre Festival (PSNMTF),

A nationally and internationally recognized annual festival of new works of musical theatre focusing direct interaction between the student performers and professional composer/lyricist team, April 2006-present. Producing over 40 new works in University Park, New York City and London, England.

 Notable Successes (transferring to professional theatre post PSNMTF)

            Seeking Flight- Her Majesty’s Theatre, London UK
            Ordinary Days- Pennsylvania Centre Stage, July 2008, Off Broadway Fall
            2009 South Coast Rep. Summer 2009, Finburgh Theatre , London Eng.
            Fall 2008, Adirondack Theatre Festival 2009
            Take Me America- Chicago MT Festival Aug 2008, York Theatre, Sept 2008
            Dani-Girl, Kennedy Center Spring 2010
            Pop! Yale Rep., Fall 2009
            Preface, commissioned by PSNMTF 2009, London, Eng 2010
            Ecoute:Peices of Reynaldo Hahn, Spring-Fall 2009, over 40 colleges and universities across US. The York
            Theatre, April 2009
            Tales from the Bad Years, performed subsequently at universities across the US, Goodspeed Opera House,
            The Rutland Theatre Co., VT

Spring 2010, formed alliance with Danish Akademie of Musical Theatre and the Uterus Theatre of Denmark in the reading of a jointly produced work; Steam

Co-Founder and Artistic Producer, Penn State at the York, and Penn State at Walnut Street Theatre, an annual event featuring a chosen musical from PSNMTF performed in New York City on the stage of the York Theatre and Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, two of America’s première off-Broadway theatre and regional theatres dedicated to the performance and fostering of new works of musical theatre, April 14-16, 2007 and April 18, 2009, April 3, 2010, May 9, 2011, December 5, 2011    

Founder and Artistic Director, School of Theatre Artistic and Technical Education, S.T.A.T.E. , an annual summerintensive two week training program for gifted High school students interested in pursuing a collegiate or professional career in musical theatre, acting or technical theatre.

Affiliations

Musical Theatre Educators Assc.                   National
National Alliance for Musical Theatre            National
National Assoc. of Teachers of Singing          National
                                                                  Alleghany Mt. Chapter
                                                                  New York City Chapter
Union affiliation; AEA, AGMA, SAG-AFTRA
College Music Society
Phi Mu Alpha Symphonia