Dave Malloy

DAVE MALLOY

PREMIERE WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE

Signature Productions:

Octet (2019)

Dave Malloy is a composer/writer/performer/orchestrator. He has written music for eighteen musicals, including The Witches, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel at the National Theater in London; Moby-Dick, a four-part musical reckoning with Herman Melville’s epic; Octet, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations, including Best Musical, Score, Book, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet, a song cycle about love, death, and whiskey; Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”; and Beowulf—A Thousand Years of Baggage, an anti-academia rock opera. He has won three Obie Awards, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Lortel Award, a Theater World Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant; has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova; and is a Premiere Residency Writer at the Signature Theatre. Upcoming: Black Swan. He lives in New York. davemalloy.com 

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