Sheela Ramesh is a music director and composer with a passion for stories and sounds that have traditionally been marginalized, and a mission to use art as a force for social justice. Professional highlights include Broadway (SIX, Moulin Rouge!, Almost Famous); Off-Broadway (Merrily We Roll Along at New York Theatre Workshop, Vanities at The York Theatre Company, and the upcoming Millennials Are Killing Musicals); TV (NBC’s Annie Live!); concert (Jessica Vosk, My Golden Age, Carnegie Hall); regional theater (Group!, a Passage Theatre world premiere); and works in development (Jeannette, as well as The Karate Kid, Bliss, Center Theatre Group’s A Transparent Musical, Lincoln Center Theater’s The Lunchbox, Fiasco Theater’s Diamond Alice, and more). Sheela received undergraduate and graduate degrees in vocal performance at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music and the Royal College of Music. She also holds degrees in psychology/cognitive science (BS, Carnegie Mellon; MSc, University College London) and law (JD, Yale Law School).