Lisa McQueen Trio

Showtimes:  7:30pm-8:45pm & 9:30pm-10:45pm

Lisa McQueen is the Second City Musical Director with credits include the Touring Company, two revues written for Atlanta’s Alliance Theater, Red Scare at Denver Center for Performing Arts, the Holder Festival (Barbados) and Boom Chicago (Amsterdam).

Although McQueen is classically trained on piano, she originally moved to Chicago to become an actor. During one of her auditions, she met a pianist who asked her to fill in for an upcoming gig. “I started getting more and more work,” McQueen says. “Everyone seemed to need an improv pianist. I was working constantly, and I was still in the theatre. It just felt right.”

Although there was no shortage of work, McQueen felt compelled to gain the background and foundation she would need to take her career to the next level. “I wanted to learn jazz piano, music history, theory and composition,” she says. “When I graduated from the DePaul School of Music, I had the confidence to go into any situation and say, ‘Yeah, I can make a song about that. No problem.’

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