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Dave Malloy

Manhattan GMAT Instructor: 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 as a composer, sound designer and performer with over 50 theater companies, including New York Theatre Workshop, Banana Bag & Bodice, Witness Relocation, Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, PS 122, ART, Center Theatre Group, Berkeley Repertory Theater, ACT, California Shakespeare Theater and Shotgun Players. He won a 2010 Special Citation OBIE award as one of the co-creator/performers of Three Pianos, a drunken romp through Schubert’s Winterreise. He has written six full length musicals, including Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage (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 winner of a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant, a recipient of the 2009-11 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Theatre Designers, and the 2011 composer-in-residence at Ars Nova.

Dave moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn in 2008; he is thrilled to now live (notice how good that split infinitive sounds) somewhere where public transportation runs past 12:30am and the subway maps look like giant permutation games.

Feedback From Dave's Recent Students

“Dave's strongest points were his abilities to keep energy and stay focused in class. I felt keyed into the subject at hand and felt that I was part of the learning process.”

 

“Dave encourages class participation. He has great energy and can make boring topics fun with humor. He uses on-the-spot examples to explain difficult questions.”


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