John L. Cornelius II
A member of ASCAP, John Cornelius' output includes musicals, operas, chamber works, orchestral works, and song cycles. Having been the music director/arranger/composer for a number of theaters includi... Read more
A member of ASCAP, John Cornelius' output includes musicals, operas, chamber works, orchestral works, and song cycles. Having been the music director/arranger/composer for a number of theaters including the Ensemble Theater of Houston, Adventure Theater in Glen Echo Park, Main Street Theatre (Houston), Theater Under the Stars (Houston) and Theater Under the Stars' Humphreys School of Musical Theater, he has also written, along with his collaborator, Michael J. Bobbitt, several works for the lyric theater including, The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings, The Stephen Schwartz Project, Mirandy and Brother Wind, Say It Ain't So!, The Yellow Rose of Texas and Going the Distance, a commission from the Smithsonian Institute, about the lives and careers of Wilma Rudolph and Jesse Owens. Mirandy and Brother Wind received a 2010 NEA grant, premiered in 2011 in Washington, DC and is published by New Plays for Young Audiences. His latest theatrical works include Three Little Birds, which adapts the catalog of Bob Marley into a modern fairy tale, and Garfield: The Musical With Cattitude.