Grace Oberhofer is a Tacoma, WA native and a Tufts University graduate (B.A. Music, minor in Italian studies, summa cum laude) who currently lives in Brooklyn, where she works as a composer, performer, sound designer, and music director.

Growing up in Tacoma, Grace was able to take advantage of any and all creative avenues. She was lucky enough to attend the Tacoma School of the Arts for high school, where she had a split concentration in vocal performance and songwriting/audio recording. Her love of composition stemmed from her work at TSOTA, and she continued to pursue both performance and composition throughout her college education. While at Tufts, Grace took advantage of every artistic opportunity possible, collaborating as a performer, composer, sound designer and writer with the Tufts Department of Drama and Dance, the Tufts Opera Ensemble, Pen, Paint & Pretzels, Bare Bodkin Theatre Co., Torn Ticket II, and Hype! Mime Troupe, among others. She was also able to participate in the Tufts Summer Scholars program thanks to the generous support of the Schwartz-Paddock Family Fellowship. During her junior year, she won the Tishler Award for her performance in classical voice, and in her senior year she received the Mabel Daniels Prize in Music and Literature for her thesis, the first iteration of A Doll’s House: A New Opera.

Since moving to Brooklyn, she has worked in various capacities with the Adirondack Theater Festival, Two-By-For Productions, Gloucester Stage Company, Everyday Inferno Theater Company, Fresh Ground Pepper, and HERE, among others. Current compositional projects include the musical After I Was Free (with author Caroline Angell), previewed at Dixon's Place in NYC, the musical Hot Cross Buns (with playwright Julia Izumi), presented at Corkscrew Theater Festival 2017, and A Doll’s House: A New Opera (with director Allison Benko), showcased in concert at both The Tank in NYC and Central Square Theater in Boston. Grace also recently completed her second year of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop. Her choral play trilogy ICONS/IDOLS (with playwright Helen Banner and director Colette Robert), was presented at the 2016 New Ohio Ice Factory Festival, and recently received the 2017 Opera America Discovery Grant.

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