BCS Sound Check is back for one more Friday night concert featuring today’s most exciting musicians and musical theatre writers from Baltimore and beyond. At our final Sound Check of the season, meet lyrist, composer and musician Michelle J. Rodriguez. She’ll bring riveting original music from her joyful new musical Presencia to the Deering Lobby for one night only.

Michelle J. Rodriguez

Michelle J. Rodriguez (she/her) writes and performs in the worlds of music and theater, exploring kids-of-immigrants stories, divinity, queerness, intuition, joy-as-resistance, healing and spaces in-between. Her music project MICHA was a finalist for NPR’s 2018 Tiny Desk Contest with her song “Nena Nena Nena.” Rodriguez is commissioned by Portland Center Stage, Baltimore Center Stage and Black Cap Productions, received a 2022 grant from NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theater, and is a Van Lier Fellow at Ars Nova in their Makers Lab. BA in Theatre and Arabic Studies from Williams College. She is represented by WME. www.michamusica.com