Zane Larson is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Iowa. He received his Bachelor's in vocal performance with an education minor from Luther College, and a Master's in music in Music Theory from Florida State University. Zane's primary research areas are musical theater, pop music, film music, and gender and sexuality studies. For his dissertation, he is researching representations of masculinity in contemporary Broadway musicals. Zane has presented his research on musicals at CUNY's Graduate Students in Music Conference, Hyperpop at Harvard's Graduate Music Forum, and Leonard Bernstein at the National American Musicological Society meeting in Denver in 2023. Zane's current publications include work on Women's Clubs in Iowa and the musical A Strange Loop, which was nominated for the Society for Music Theory's Public Facing Scholarship Award in 2024.