Dave Malloy
| Dave Malloy | |
|---|---|
 Malloy in 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | David Christian Malloy |
| Born |
January 4, 1976 Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | Musical theatre |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, writer, performer, orchestrator, sound designer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Dave Malloy (born January 4, 1976) is an American composer, best known for his award winning electropop opera, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and his chamber musical Ghost Quartet.
Career
Malloy grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland suburb, and began making theater in San Francisco in 2000.[1] Early work included pieces with Banana Bag & Bodice, for whom has been the composer since 2002.[2]
In 2008 he composed music for Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay written by Jason Craig and commissioned by the Shotgun Players in Berkeley, CA. Beowulf received the 2008 Glickman Award and a 2011 Edinburgh Herald Angel, and has played a number of venues and festivals, including Berkeley Repertory’s Roda Theatre, ART’s Club Oberon, Joe’s Pub, and festivals in England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia.[3]
After Beowulf, he co-created and performed in Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise” (with Rick Burkhardt and Alec Duffy, directed by Rachel Chavkin) that premiered in 2010 at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, winning a Special Citation Obie Award, and subsequently had runs at New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theatre.[4]
His next work was Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, for which he was the composer, lyricist, orchestrator, music director and performer (playing Pierre). Comet was commissioned by Ars Nova and premiered there in October 2012, directed by Chavkin; in May 2012 the show transferred Off-Broadway to Kazino, a tent custom-built for the piece, first in the Meatpacking District and then in Times Square. In December 2015 the show played a pre-Broadway run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. The show has won an Obie Award, the 2013 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, the Off Broadway Alliance's Best New Musical Award, 3 Elliot Norton Awards, 8 IRNE Awards, 11 Lucille Lortel Awards nominations (winning 3), 5 Drama Desk nominations, 2 Drama League Award nominations,[5][6] and will open on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in October 2016.
Ghost Quartet opened in October 2014 at the Bushwick Starr. After an extended sold out run, the piece transferred to the McKittrick Hotel, home of Sleep No More, and has since played in a number of cities, including Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Cambridge, where it won an Elliot Norton Award. The piece is a staged concept album, about love, death, and whiskey.[7] This was followed by Preludes, a piece about Rachmaninoff and hypnosis that premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in June 2015.
Malloy lives in Brooklyn, NY. Future projects include adaptations of Moby Dick and Shakespeare's Henriad.[8]
Major works
- Preludes (2015) (composer/writer; directed by Rachel Chavkin)
- Ghost Quartet (2014) (composer/writer/performer, with Brent Arnold, Gelsey Bell and Brittain Ashford, directed by Annie Tippe)
- Black Wizard / Blue Wizard (2013) (co-creator/composer/Black Wizard; with Eliza Bent, directed by Dan Safer)
- Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (2012) (composer/librettist/orchestrator/Pierre; directed by Rachel Chavkin)
- Beardo (2011) (composer; written by Jason Craig, directed by Patrick Dooley)
- Three Pianos (2010) (co-creator/performer/sound & video designer; with Rick Burkhardt and Alec Duffy, directed by Rachel Chavkin)
- Space//Space (2009) (composer, sound designer; with Banana Bag & Bodice)
- Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage (2008) (composer/musical director/Hrothgar; with Banana Bag & Bodice)
- Clown Bible (2007) (composer/lyricist/Job/Judas; directed by Maya Gurantz)
- The Sewers (2005) (composer/sound designer; with Banana Bag & Bodice)
- Sandwich (2003) (co-creator, with Banana Bag & Bodice)[9]
Honors and awards
He is the winner of two OBIE Awards,[10] a Richard Rodgers Award, Glickman Award, ASCAP New Horizons Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, and New Music USA Grant, a recipient of the 2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Directors and Designers, and the 2011 Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova.[11]
References
- ↑ Schulman, Michael. "Rocking Out to “War and Peace”". The New Yorker, June 13, 2013
- ↑ Cote, David. "Theater in New York: Q&A with Dave Malloy". Time Out New York, March 26, 2013
- ↑ "Beowulf". Banana Bag & Bodice. New York.
- ↑ Soloski, Alexis. "New York Theatre Workshop Uncorks Three Pianos" Village Voice, November 24, 2010
- ↑ Weinert-Kendt, Rob. "The Composer Wears Many Hats" New York Times, May 23, 2013
- ↑ Cox, Gordon. "‘Here Lies Love,’ ‘Great Comet’ Shatter Records in Lortel Nominations" Variety, April 1, 2014
- ↑ Kozinn, Allan. "Malloy’s ‘Ghost Quartet’ to Play in Chelsea’s McKittrick Hotel" NY Times, December 11, 2014
- ↑ Amodio, Joseph. "Dave Malloy talks Tolstoy and new musical, 'Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812'" Newsday, July 10, 2013
- ↑ "Resume page". Composer's website. New York.
- ↑ "Obie Awards". Obie Awards.
- ↑ "Author biography page". Samuel French. New York.
External links
- davemalloy.com Official website