Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice, and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.
Sammi Cannold
Sammi Cannold is a Broadway director who is one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, one of Variety’s 10 Broadway Stars to Watch, one of Town and Country’s Creative Aristocracy, and a Drama Desk Award Winner. In 2025, she was named a Sundance Writers Intensive Fellow and is developing her first feature film with the Sundance Institute. She has directed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, at the Kennedy Center, at Radio City Music Hall, and beyond, and has worked for CBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, Apple TV, and Cirque du Soleil. B. A., Stanford University; M.A., Harvard University. www.sammicannold.com.@sammi.cannold
Sean O’Loughlin
Sean O’Loughlin (b.1972) is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Syracuse Orchestra and the Principal Pops Conductor of the Victoria Symphony in B.C., Canada. His diverse background includes collaborations with some of the leading symphonies and popular artists of today including Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, Journey, a-ha, Jason Mraz, The Beach Boys, Sarah McLachlan, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Pentatonix, Kelly Clarkson, Gladys Knight, Blue Man Group, Janelle Monáe, Audra McDonald, Hall and Oates, the Indigo Girls, The Go-Go’s, Bonnie Raitt, Pink Martini, Brandi Carlile, Weird Al Yankovic, Melissa Etheridge, King Gizzard and others. His orchestrations for the musical “Rent” in concert were premiered at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra in groundbreaking performances.
As a conductor, he has led performances with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony and the San Diego Symphony amongst others. He has served as conductor for symphony tours with Diana Ross, Josh Groban, Sarah McLachlan, The Decemberists and the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. He has appeared on Good Morning America and the PBS Special “Stages” with Josh Groban in addition to NBC’s “A Very Pentatonix Christmas.”
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