Education
- M.F.A. Vocal Performance, University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music
- B.A. Vocal Performance, Baylor University
Raymond Sage is Head of Musical Theatre Voice and Voice Pedagogy at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Sage received a bachelor's degree in vocal performance from Baylor University and a master's degree in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), followed by doctoral and post-graduate work also at CCM. Before joining the musical theatre faculty at Indiana, Sage is on theatre faculties of Penn State University, where he is Prof Emeritus of Voice for Musical Theatre, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' Collaborative Arts Project 21, Inc. (CAP 21). Prof. Sage was also instrumental in forming the first graduate degree in musical theatre voice pedagogy. Raymond’s students have been seen in many Broadway productions, such as Gypsy, Hair, West Side Story,Follies, Titanic, Beauty and the Beast, Steel Pier, High Society, Cats, Scarlet Pimpernel, The Lion King, Kinky Boots, Beautiful, Cinderella, Aladdin, Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, Six, Sweeny Todd, Shucks! and many more.
As a performer, Sage appeared in the Broadway and national touring productions of Camelot, Beauty and the Beast, and Titanic, as well as in regional theatres across the country, such as Pennsylvania Center Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Dallas Summer Musicals. In 2011, Raymond starred as Ludie in the European premiere of the Horton Foote classic Trip to Bountiful at the Courtyard Theatre and in 2012 at the Old Vic Tunnels as Olsen in the O’Neill Sea Plays. He has made television appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, The Howie Mandel Show, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Sage performed his one-person show Seeking Flight, based on the works of the great American playwright Eugene O’Neill throughout North America, it premiered at Her Majesty’s Theatre on the West End in January of 2016. Prof. Sage is currently working on a new musical based on the R.A Dick novel, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir which will premiere in London 2025.