Cy Wood's Bio

Cy lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and is the Executive Director for Young Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC) as well as a creative artist and coach. He moved to Ohio to teach music and theatre at Butler Tech School of the Arts, which he lovingly did so for 7 wonderful years. Before that, Cy worked in New York City for nearly a decade as a professional actor, producer, special events coordinator, and creative director. Some shows that he has been involved with include current and past Broadway, Off-Broadway, Special Events and National Tours namely: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Reunion, Bombshell in Concert, Kinky Boots, Pippin, After Midnight, Peter and the Starcatcher, Evita, RENT, Flashdance, Murder for Two, and Triassic Parq to name a few. As a professional actor, Cy has performed across the world in many Broadway and Disney Productions including Annie, Oklahoma!, Cats, She Loves Me, Sunset Boulevard, Into The Woods, The Diamond Horseshoe Revue (Disney), and Big Band Beat (Disney). Cy holds a BFA from Brigham Young University where he graduated with a Music, Dance and Theater degree with an emphasis in Music Education. He enjoys his down time living on the lake with his wonderful husband, Dustin, and their two cats.

Barbershop

Cy grew up as a third-generation barbershopper. He and his three brothers love to sing the old songs whenever they are together. His mother sang barbershop with her sisters, as did her father with his brothers. Growing up, the family's car trips were filled with the whole family harmonizing down the roads of Idaho. The in-laws of the Wood family know that they must sing the melody of Happy Birthday, lest the melody be M.I.A.

Cy finally joined the Idaho Gateway Chorus when he was 15 years old. The barbershop bug had bitten him hard. On any given day, the locals of Pocatello, Idaho could hear Cy belting along with his favorite recordings of Suntones, Bluegrass Student Union, Keepsake, or The Gas House Gang while he zipped down the road in his newly painted '78 VW Beatle. He was even pulled over for speeding once, because while he was posting along with Tony De Rosa, he didn't realize that his foot was slamming on the gas!

While studying in college, Cy was asked to be in High Flight, a competitive collegiate quartet. Though they were together only a few months, they won the Rocky Mountain District collegiate contest, and later went on to place 12th at the 2006 International Competition. Cy sung baritone. 

He joined NYC's acclaimed chorus Voices of Gotham in 2012 and was quickly asked to be the baritone section leader as well as a board member at large. In 2013, Cy was asked to be VoG's Choreographer and Presentation Leader. He has had his work performed on the international stage as well as many stages in North America including Carnegie Hall. Since moving to Ohio, Cy has performed with a BHS Top Ten Chorus, Southern Gateway Chorus where he also served on the music team and was the Performance Director.

In addition to his active coaching and chorus lifestyle, Cy was the baritone of On Tap. This quartet won the Mid-Atlantic District Northern Division Contest in 2014 and 7th place at the MAD District competition. On Tap entertained their audiences until their disbandment in 2015 due to two of the members moving away from NYC. 

He also sang bass in his first mixed quartet, Half and Half which was the first mixed gendered quartet to ever compete in the Barbershop Harmony Society’s international competition. Half and Half placed 14th in the world in 2022. Half and Half recorded an album entitled Let’s Be Bad which is available anywhere music can be streamed. The quartet disbanded in 2023.

Currently, Cy sings baritone in MixTape, a BHS quartet based in Ohio. The quartet is the current champions for the Johnny Appleseed district, which encompasses all of Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania. They hope to qualify, again, for the international barbershop competition this summer.

Cy is a judge in the Performance Category for the Barbershop Harmony Society.

Musical Theatre

There isn’t a time that Cy hasn’t been obsessed with Musical Theatre. Some of his earliest memories are listening to soundtracks of Broadway shows and singing along with every word. When his siblings were in a production in their schools, he would attend rehearsals and be able to recreate the choreography on his own at home. Musical theatre was (and is) his happy place.

Nothing would stop him from being on stage: When he was just in the third grade, he was in a children’s show of Hansel and Gretel. But he came down with an awful case of pneumonia just before the performances. His mother took him to go get a shot in his backside and he still insisted on performing, limping the whole time. Whatever it took, he was always determined to be involved in some sort of production. He even left high school a few months early because he was cast in his first professional show— an opportunity that he was not going to miss!

While attending Brigham Young University, Cy auditioned for and was selected to be a Dapper Dan at Disneyland in California. Unfortunately, the rehearsal schedule conflicted with another production that he had just accepted, and he had to regrettably decline that offer. That opportunity, however, led to him landing his first job working for Tokyo Disney Resort! He took some time from his studies to be able to work in Japan and meet and work with so many wonderful artists from around the world!

After returning from Japan, and finishing school, Cy immediately moved to New York City. He had two suitcases, no place to live, and no job to pay the bills, but Cy was determined to see his performing dreams come to reality. Within a few weeks, he was offered his first job on the Broadway National Tour of Annie. From there, Cy was lucky to be cast in several regional and Broadway shows, all while making art, memories and friends along the way.

Later, Cy worked for a Broadway producer and was involved with eight different Broadway shows and tours, two of which won the Tony awards for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical. (Kinky Boots and Pippin, respectively.) Cy also was a member of the Actor’s Fund (Now renamed Entertainment Community Fund) Special Event’s team, which provides services for anyone in the arts industry.