Dave Malloy

Dave Malloy
Malloy in 2013
Background information
Born	Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Genres	Musical theatre
Occupation(s)	Composer, writer, performer, orchestrator, sound designer
Years active	2000–present

Dave Malloy 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.

Malloy grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland suburb, and began making theater in San Francisco in 2000. Early work included pieces with Banana Bag & Bodice, for whom has been the composer since 2002.

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.

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.

His next work was Beardo, a Russian indie rock musical based on the life of Rasputin, which Malloy wrote with Beowulf collaborator Jason Craig. It played in 2011 in San Fransisco, and is set to have a limited run in New York during February 2017.

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