Dave Malloy

Composer

Dave Malloy is a composer/performer/sound designer. He is one of the co-creator/performers of Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s Winterreise (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York Theater Workshop; Special Citation OBIE Award), and the composer for the Brooklyn based ensemble Banana Bag & Bodice. He has written six full-length musicals, including Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage (2011 Edinburgh Herald Angel, 2008 Glickman Award, New Yorker Best of 2009), Beardo, Sandwich, and Clown Bible (“Best Play of the Year,” “Best Music,” East Bay Express 2007). Other notable shows include (The 99-cent) Miss Saigon, a shoe-string adaptation complete with a toy helicopter on a zip line, for which he was musical director, pianist and Chris. He is the 2011 composer-in-residence at Ars Nova, where he is developing Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on Tolstoy's War & Peace. Awards include a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant and the 2009-11 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Designers. He lives in Brooklyn.