Dave Malloy is a composer, writer, performer, and orchestrator. He is the winner of three Obie Awards, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Lortel Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant.
His shows include Moby-Dick, Octet, Preludes, Ghost Quartet, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Black Wizard/Blue Wizard, All Hands, Three Pianos, Beardo, Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, The Sewers, Sandwich, Clown Bible, and (The 99-cent) Miss Saigon.
While at MacDowell in 2016, Malloy worked on the libretto and music for Moby-Dick, a large-form communal music theater event based on Herman Melville's novel, and music for an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henriad. He also worked on revisions for his electropop opera Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which opened on Broadway later that year and received 12 Tony nominations and two awards for Best Lighting Design of a Musical and Best Scenic Design of a Musical (given to Mimi Lien). During his 2022 Fellowship, he worked on music and lyrics for two musical theater pieces: an adaptation of the film Black Swan, and a gala event for Hermès.
