Miguel Esteban is a Canadian/American Musical Director who recently graduated with a Masters in Musical Directing from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS). He is also a graduate from the University of Toronto, where he received a Bachelor of Music in Classical Piano Performance and a Master of Teaching, both with High Distinction.

He is currently the Assistant Musical Director for the The Red Shoes at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Most recently, he was co-MD for a new American musical Fountain of You at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which he also workshopped at the RCS in March 2024.

Prior to his time at the RCS, Miguel worked for a wide range of musical theatre productions as a freelance MD, pit musician (keyboard, violin, viola), keyboard programmer, and rehearsal/audition pianist. He was nominated for his MD work on The Spongebob Musical for “Best Musical Direction and Orchestra Performance (Professional)” in BroadwayWorld Toronto’s 2023 awards. In 2022, Miguel founded, and music directed, a youth theatre orchestra, which gave young musicians the opportunity to learn about musical theatre pit playing, attend various workshops related to musician health and pit playing, work with professional musicians and conductors, and perform in the pit for a live show at the end of the year.

Select MD Credits: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Keys 1/deputy MD, Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Urinetown, Earthquakes in London (RCS); The Spongebob Musical, Peter Pan the Musical, Cinderella Stepsisters’ Revenge: A Panto (Regent Theatre); Descendants, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Putting It Together, Seussical (Oshawa Little Theatre