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Dave Malloy

Dave Malloy New York, NY

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dave Malloy quickly discovered an uncanny aptitude for compulsive organization, grammatical complexity and mathematical puzzles. Much of this skill he put towards music, receiving a degree in Music Composition from Ohio University. After moving to San Francisco in 1999, Dave found himself drawn simultaneously into the seemingly disparate worlds of teaching and theater, working as a preschool teacher, a counselor for at-risk youth, and a standardized test instructor for the SAT, GRE, LSAT and GMAT (scoring a 770 along the way), all while pursuing a career as a composer, pianist, music director and sound designer for experimental, repertory and youth theater. Happily, he has been able to flourish in both.

Since his first show at San Francisco’s Exit Theater in 1999, Dave has worked with over 50 theater companies, including Berkeley Repertory Theater, ACT, California Shakespeare Theater, Shotgun Players, Ten Red Hen, mugwumpin, PS 122 and Hoi Polloi. As a composer, Dave has written original scores for over 30 theatrical productions, including four full-length musicals. 2007’s Clown Bible was awarded “Best Play of the Year” and “Best Music of the Year” by the East Bay Express; the following year’s Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage received the same paper’s “Best of the East Bay, Best Theatrical Production.” Beowulf (which will be remounted in April 2009 at NYC’s Henry Street Settlement) marks Dave’s sixth collaboration with Banana Bag & Bodice, a Brooklyn-based theater group that has gained considerable recognition in the last few years, including places in Time Out New York’s Best of 2006 and 2007 lists. As a musical director, Dave has led casts and conducted orchestras from the piano for numerous musicals, including favorites Miss Saigon, Into the Woods and West Side Story. As a sound designer, he received a San Francisco Bay Area Critic’s Circle Award for Sound Design for his work on California Shakespeare Theater’s puppet version of The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2006.

A recent transplant to New York City, Dave is thrilled to live somewhere where public transportation runs past 12:30am, and where the subway maps look like giant permutation games.
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