Ellen Mandel is resident composer at the Jean Cocteau Repertory in New York City, where she has composed music for Medea, On the Razzle, Lulu, Hamlet, Major Barbara, Travesties, Tartuffe and many others. She has created music for many Peterborough Players productions, including As You LIke It, The Matchmaker, and The Cherry Orchard, directed by Gus Kaikkonen, and for his Riverside Shakespeare, (NYC) productions of Richard III, and Macbeth, Waiting for Godot (Boarshead Theatre, Lansing, MI), and Twelfth Night (Asolo Theatre, Sarasota FL). Other theaters include Arkansas Rep, Tennessee Rep, and Riverside Theater (Vero Beach FL). Ms. Mandel has written four film scores, and performs frequently around NYC with her jazz quintet. She has released two CDs: Every Play's an Opera, a collection of her theatre music, and a wind has blown the rain away, her E.E. Cummings songs, sung by Peterborough favorite Todd Almond. (2003)