Katya Stanislavskaya

On December 14, 2025, Katya's holiday song "This Isn't Christmas" was performed by Rita Neidich at Do I  Her what I Her?",, a concert benefitting Urban Stages in New York City. The event was produced by Amy Engelhardt and music directed by Tracy Stark. 

In December 2025, the Berklee Staged Reading Class performed excerpts from Katya's musical POETRY & PROSE at Cafe 939 in Boston. The class was taught by Haley Thompson-King. 

Katya's duet "To Each Her Own" was included in a virtual concert by A Modern Reveal, an organization that spotlights women composers writing in various genres. The song was performed by Nicole Renna and Megnot Toggia, and accompanied by Eric Sedgwick. 

In November 2025, Katya's new musical The Shadow was workshopped at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, featuring a cast of current Musical Theater majors, directed by Ilana Ransom Toeptlitz. 

With the aid of a Berklee Recording Grant, Katya recorded a 7-song EP titled The Mother [Un]Load, featuring original songs for and about women of a certain age. The album features vocalists Leigh Barrett, Lori L'Italien, Megan Lewis-Michelson, and Zipporah Peddle; instrumentalists Dan Gonko, Sahil Warsi, Miles Aubrey, and Jonathan Fuller. It was recorded by Mark Wessel, mixed and mastered by Daniel Gonko, and is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon. 

On December 14th, 2024, Katya's full-length musical POETRY & PROSE was presented presented at the Manhattan School of Music New Works Lab, directed by Dev Bondarin. 

Katya presented an evening of original songs at Berklee College of Music in September 2024. It featured performances by students and faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. 

You can check out the performances here. 

In June 2024, Katya served as music director for a reading of "Late," a new musical by Michael Wartofsky and Kathleen Cahill, directed by Ilana Ransom Toeplitz.  The reading took place at Boston Conservatory of Music and featured students and alumni from BoCo, Berklee, and Emerson College. 

In April 2024, Katya music directed the Sondheim/Lapine musical Sunday in the Park with George at Boston University, directed by Clay Hopper. 

In March 2024, Katya music directed The Mad Ones by Kerrigan & Lowdermilk at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, directed by Marianna Bassham. Check out a post-production video here, featuring Bridget Delaney as Sam and Abbie Smith as Kelly. 

Katya music directed, played, and conducted Bat Boy at SUNY-New Paltz in April 2023, directed by Catherine Doherty. 

A staged reading of Katya's musical The Useful Citizen (formerly The Poorhouse Project) was presented at SUNY-New Paltz on Saturday, September 17th and Sunday September 18th, 2022. Directed by Catherine Doherty, the reading featured student actors from the Department of Theatre Arts. 

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In Summer 2022, Katya spent a week at the Catwalk Institute in Hudson, NY, where she worked on the second draft of The Useful Citizen (formerly known as The Poorhouse Project).

In October 2021, a  20-minute excerpt from The Poorhouse Project was presented at the Tony-Award winning BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. The evening was moderated by Adam Mathias, with special guest panelist, director Sarna Lapine.

Katya had a year-long partnership with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance to develop her musical The Poorhouse Project. In October 2021, Katya traveled to Georgia to workshop the first act of the piece; and then in February 2022, with director Tracey Brent-Chessum and a student cast. She returned to GTA in February 2022 to present a complete draft of the musical.

Katya received the Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave for Fall 2021. The Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Diversity and Inclusion Leave Program enhances employment opportunities for employees who are preparing for continuing appointment (academic employees) or permanent appointment (professional employees). Established under the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Committee, this Program seeks to promote diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity in SUNY’s workforce. During her leave, Katya will be developing her new musical, The Poorhouse Project.

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Katya and two of her students, Christopher Lunetta and Gina Lardi, received a SURE  (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) Award. During Summer 2021, they will be researching, rehearsing, and recording songs from The Poorhouse Project. 

In May 2021, Katya spent two weeks in New Hampshire as a MacDowell Fellow. She will be working on The Poorhouse Project during her two-week residency. In September, Katya was

invited to be a Virtual MacDowell Fellow, where she shared ideas about making MacDowell more accessible to parent-artists. Read about the MacDowell here.