Biography
Dave Malloy was born on 4 January 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Lakewood. He studied music composition and English literature at Ohio University and has made theatre since 2000, first in San Francisco and now in New York. He works as a composer, writer, singer, orchestrator and actor. He became widely known for Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, based on a section of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which began at Ars Nova in 2012, reached Broadway in 2016 and received twelve Tony Award nominations. Malloy was the final Broadway Pierre himself. His other works include Ghost Quartet (2014), Preludes (2015), Octet (2019), Moby-Dick (2019), The Witches for the National Theatre in London (2023) and Three Houses (2024). His honours include three Obie Awards, the Richard Rodgers Award (2013) and, for Octet, the 2020 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music.
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