About

Andrew Flasch (b. 1997) is an award-winning music and vocal director, pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, and educator with over 40 theatrical production credits.

Andrew is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at the University of Mississippi (“Ole Miss”), and is concurrently earning his Master of Music in Collaborative Piano. Prior to that post, he was the Music Director, Accompanist, and Arranger for Southern Utah University’s Department of Theatre, Dance, and Arts Administration for two academic years. While in Utah, he served as the music director for the Tony-Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival in their 2025 season.

Since 2019, Andrew has been a frequent collaborator at the Dunes Arts Foundation “Dunes Summer Theatre,” collaborating with Artistic Director and former Goodman Theatre Producer Steve Scott. He has served as the Music Director for many productions with The Dunes, including Jesus Christ Superstar in Concert, The Bridges of Madison County, tick, tick…BOOM!, Next to Normal, A Grand Night For Singing, Forever Plaid, Working (2012), and annual cabarets. Flasch’s work there was the subject of a feature article, “The Man Behind the Music”.

He is the composer, lyricist, and playwright for a new musical The Baby with the Bathwater. He has also composed original music for three plays. As an arranger, he collaborated with creator and writer Kristyn Estes on an original children’s musical, Critters - A Chatsical of Epidemic Proportions.

While studying at Valparaiso University, Flasch lead the university’s Chorale as President to Germany to perform at the Castle Church in Wittenberg and Bach’s St. Thomas Church in Leipzig for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. In addition to being the bass section leader and playing piano for the Chorale’s tours, Flasch was commissioned to arrange two pieces: the first, a vocal jazz arrangement of the African-American spiritual Go Tell It on the Mountain—the second, a medley of tunes from West Side Storyfor choir and four-hand piano.

He first music directed at 19 years old for Crown Point Community Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors; he was nominated for Best Musical Direction and won for Best Vocal Direction, while the show itself won Best Musical at the 2017 Northwest Indiana Excellence in Theatre (NIETF) Award Gala.