Stephen Purdy is a vocal and performance coach for Broadway musicals and for Broadway and West End actors and a conductor and pianist for Broadway shows. Before working on Broadway, Purdy worked as a Wall Street broker. Purdy studied vocal performance and piano at the University of Mississippi and Vocal Pedagogy at Westminster College. Purdy spent many years in Europe conducting and playing tours of the musical productions of Grease, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, and with Grease in Paris, France. His work on Broadway includes Disney's Tarzan, Glory Days, Peter Pan, the original Fantasticks and Frankenstein with Hunter Foster and has also toured the United States with the Broadway Musicals The Full Monty, Spelling Bee, and Peter Pan. As a vocal and performance coach he maintains a private studio for voice coaching in Manhattan, and makes regular contributions to master classes at Universities and performing arts groups across the US and internationally notably in The Netherlands, Spain and Shanghai, China as well as The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.