Originally from Enid, Oklahoma, Brooke Bryant is a Ph. D. student in historical musicology at CUNY Graduate Center, where she is also enrolled in the Renaissance certificate program.  Her primary research interests are seventeenth-century linguisitics, seventeenth-century English music and literature, music printing and Baroque gesture.  She is also interested in twentieth-century popular music and feminist theory.  Brooke earned a B.A. in Music and Medieval/Renaissance studies from Wellesley College, where she staged a production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas as her senior thesis project.  She has performed as a soloist throughout New York city, at venues such as Grace Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the ensembles Sendebar and Cerddorion, and premiered works by composers Bob Lumoski and Dan Shore. Also an actress, she has performed in off-off Broadway productions of the Laramie Project at the Arthur Seelen Theater, Softwear.com at the Producer's Club and Saddam the Musical at the Vital Theater.  She has also appeared as "Hope Harcourt" in Anything Goes, "Nanette" in No No Nanette, "Ida" in Die Fledermaus, and in Camelot at the Highfield Theater and the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse. She enjoys typesetting and book binding. You may also visit her on the web at www.brookebryant.com

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