Vincent (Original Cast Album)

VINCENT ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING — OUT NOW

Today, April 6, 2026, the Vincent Original Cast Recording is officially out on all streaming platforms.

This one’s a big deal for me. Not just because it’s an album release, but because it feels like the end of one chapter and the beginning of something else. Seven years ago today, I wrote the first song, “Travel the Stars,” without really knowing what it was for. Now it exists as the closing track of a full cast album. That’s…wild to say out loud.

Where This Sound Comes From

I didn’t grow up with a clear lane musically. It was a mix of whatever I could get my hands on. Rock records, cast albums, video game soundtracks, film scores. Billy Joel next to Genesis. Jesus Christ Superstar next to Mega Man. John Williams next to Green Day.

At the time, it just felt like noise. Looking back, that’s the foundation of this album.

When I started writing Vincent, I wasn’t consciously pulling from any of that. But it all came out anyway. The pop-punk edge, the prog influence, the theatricality—it’s all just…what’s in there. The score doesn’t sit in one genre because I never really learned how to.

Figuring Out What the Show Actually Was

The first version of Vincent wasn’t honest. It worked on paper, but it felt safe. I thought I was supposed to write a biography, something structured and explainable. It took a while to realize that wasn’t the show.

Alyssa Kakis came on as director, and that’s when things started to shift. Not easily. There were disagreements with the first cast, mistakes (a lot of mine), and a real learning curve in figuring out how to actually collaborate. But through that process, the show started to find its core.

By the time we hit the New York Theater Festival, everything clicked. Vincent became female-presenting. The world became modern Brooklyn. The piece stopped trying to explain a life and instead focused on something bigger…the experience of being an artist, and what it costs to care that much.

We cut it down. We moved things around. “Travel the Stars” became the ending. And suddenly, it felt like the show knew what it was.

The LIU Production & The Album

Long Island University took a chance on the show when they didn’t have to. That led to a workshop process where the room was genuinely collaborative. Actors shaping material, music changing because it needed and wanted to. Everyone had a voice.

Then the production happened. Five sold-out performances. No cynicism. Just people showing up and doing the work because they believed in it.

After closing, people started asking about a cast album. I brushed it off at first…it felt too expensive, too unrealistic. And then Alyssa said, “Why not?”

That was it.

We crowdfunded the entire thing. The same cast and team that built the show came back to record it. That alone still doesn’t fully compute for me.

We recorded at Power Station at Berklee NYC, which is one of those rooms you walk into and immediately feel like you should apologize for sullying its walls with your presence. Standing in that space, conducting these performances, realizing what we were actually doing…it’s something I don’t think I’ll ever fully process.

What This Album Is

This isn’t a polished, perfect album. That was never the goal.

There’s no pitch correction. No smoothing things over. If something imperfect happened during the best take, it stayed. This is a document of a room full of people making something they cared about, in real time.

It sounds like everything that raised me…rock, theater, games, all of it…finally agreeing to exist in the same place.

More than anything, it sounds like the people who made it.

Listen Now

The Vincent Original Cast Recording is now available everywhere.

If we did this right, you’ll hear what it felt like to be in that room. The energy, the risk, the joy of making something just because it mattered to us.

Thanks for being here for it.