 He was asked to play drums on the film score for Blindspotting, by Daveed Diggs (who wrote, produced and starred in the film) and had performed in the original cast of Hamilton.Mader played drums for the world premiere of the Tony Award winning Wicked (musical) (original New York cast) and The Lion King (musical) (San Francisco).He then relocated to Los Angeles to play drums for Hamilton (musical), "An American Musical".