Welcome to my Web Site!

If you've come this far, you probably already know that I am principally an orchestrator for Broadway, other theater, recordings, concerts and film. To answer your questions about what I do, use the links above.

Audio Clips on the Discography page! Clips of my orchestrations from various projects in mp3 format. Check them out! Click here.

Awards:
TONY and Drama Desk Awards: The Light in the Piazza
(co-award with Ted Sperling and Adam Guettel)
OBIE Award: Floyd Collins

Previous nominations:
TONY Award: Grey Gardens, Urinetown
Drama Desk: 9 To 5, Grey Gardens,
Floyd Collins, The Sound of Music, Urinetown,
The Burnt Part Boys

Shen Family Foundation
Musical Theater Leadership Award
Now Playing:

Los Otros (Michael John LaChiusa/Ellen Fitzhugh; Graciela Daniele, dir.) (Mark Taper Forum, LA)

Anything Goes: "Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye"

Pop! (Anna K. Jacobs, Maggie-Kate Coleman; City Theatre, Pittsburgh. Anthony Rapp as Andy Warhol)

 
Coming Up:

Far From Heaven (Frankel/Korie) (Williamstown/Playwrights Horizons, Michael Greif, dir.)

Giant (Michael John LaChiusa, Sybille Pearson;
Michael Greif, dir.)
(Public Theater, NYC)
"Giant is a big step forward for the American musical."
"as big as Texas -- and all heart"
Dallas Morning News

9 to 5 (UK tour) (Dolly Parton)

 
Recent:

A Room With A View Jeffrey Stock, Marc Acito; Scott Schwartz, dir.) (The Old Globe)

Giant (Michael John LaChiusa, Sybille Pearson;
Michael Greif, dir.)
(Dallas Theater Center)

Cloudlands (Adam Gwon/Octavio Solis; South Coast Rep, CA)
"...nothing short of a triumph for all concerned with this extraordinary new work." (LA TIMES)

Audra McDonald at NJPAC
I orchestrated : Make Someone Happy, My Buddy, Angry Man/Baby Mine, Ain't It de Truth and Go Back Home (with Larry Hochman).

Tales of the City (Jake Shears, John Garden, Jeff Whitty)
(ACT, San Francisco; Jason Moore, dir.)

Saving Aimee (Gifford, Friedman, Pomeranz)
(5th Ave Theatre, Seattle)

 
CD Release:

The Burnt Part Boys (Chris Miller/NathanTysen)
Talkin' Broadway: Top Ten Cast albums of 2011
Excerpts available on the Discography page: Click here.

 

"Mr. Coughlin's orchestration for "Grey Gardens" is ambrosia — I have been addicted to the CD for months. He has the woodwinds, in particular, burbling and blending and commenting on the songs in an intoxicating way — what that man can do with a bassoon alone. He is a Michelangelo of orchestration."

John McWhorter (Manhattan Institute) in an editorial commentary in the New York Sun (6/14/2007) about the 2007 TONY award for Best Orchestration. It's one man's opinion but makes for an interesting read: Read the NY Sun editorial here