Erin Cushing is an Upper School Music teacher and music director for the One School Musical. She teaches AP Music Theory, piano techniques, a digital audio foundations course, and band and music theater classes. Since 2004, Erin has directed numerous productions, attended the prestigious Carnegie Hall Music Educators Workshop, and earned a Conversational Solfege music educator certification. Her teaching spans pre-K through 12th grade, leading performance ensembles on state, national, and international tours. Erin was accepted as a conductor for the 2020 Frost Young Women Conductors’ Symposium and presented at the 2022 Florida Music Educators Association Professional Development Conference. She was recognized as a local public elementary school’s 2014 Teacher of the Year and was selected as the recipient of the Gleim and Fuhr Family Faculty Excellence Fund award to attend the Broadway Teachers Workshop in New York City in July 2024.