Julianne B. Merrill

Originally from Indianapolis, Julianne Merrill works in New York City as a professional music director, pianist, and electronic music engineer. She is a frequent music director for various cabarets, concerts, galas, and new work development workshops. On Broadway, she can be found on the podium as a conductor and keyboard player, as well as behind a pit computer as keyboard programmer and playback engineer. 

Her Broadway projects include Galileo, Chess, Real Women Have Curves, Smash, How to Dance in Ohio, Harmony, Some Like It Hot, and A Strange Loop. Her off-Broadway projects include Music City, Bigfoot!, Broad Strokes: Cat Cohen, Reunions, My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?), Rolling Thunder, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, Jonathan Larson Project, Big Gay Jamboree, Drag: The Musical, Communion, The Lonely Few, and White Girl in Danger. She also worked on the national tours for Water for Elephants and Some Like It Hot.

A graduate of and now professor at Berklee NYC, Julianne uses the artist name “PatchMaster,” and is the owner of PatchMaster Productions, a live experience design agency. She has returned to Berklee NYC to teach Music Technology for Musical Theater Writers.