Deidre Struck
Pronouns: she/her
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Parent, Artist in Residence
Attended Camp: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
This is my fifth year at Ballibay with my two daughters, and we couldn’t be more excited! I’m most looking forward to jumping in the pool after musical rehearsals, taking stretch class, and writing/playing songs with campers.
Professional Bio:
Deidre Rodman Struck started her NYC career by moving from Idaho in 1997 to play keyboards in the Big Apple Circus. Since then, she has Music Directed an all-female Orthodox Jewish production of Wicked (with Stephen Schwartz’s blessing), toured with all-girl band The Lascivious Biddies, co-produced and composed music for two musicals performed in a backyard, released three jazz piano albums on the Sunnyside label, and helped dozens of mothers in prisons, shelters, and hospitals write lullabies for their babies through Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project. Elvis Costello called her “a wonderful pianist and a delicate composer with a truly unique voice”. Her latest album, “The Year of Lost and Found”, is a song-cycle based on the 2020 pandemic, and will be released on all platforms May 17th..