Dave Malloy

Writing

Dave Malloy

Born

1976-01-04 (50)

Place of birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

tick, tick... BOOM! poster
7.6

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

tick, tick... BOOM!

2021

Octet poster
NR

Eight internet-obsessed people meet in a church basement and lock their phones in a box. They follow the octet as they struggle with digital dependency, charting their compulsions using only the analog vibrancy of their own voices.

Octet

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Ghost Quartet: In Concert poster
8.0

A camera breaks and four friends drink, in interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: a warped fairy tale about two sisters, a treehouse astronomer and a lazy evil bear; a retelling of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher; a purgatorial intermezzo about Scheherazade; and a contemporary fable about a subway murder.

Ghost Quartet: In Concert

2020

Ghost Quartet at the McKittrick Hotel, Jan. 12, 2015 poster
8.3

A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous sister, a treehouse astronomer, a bear, a subway, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk.

Ghost Quartet at the McKittrick Hotel, Jan. 12, 2015

2020

Preludes poster
8.0

Based on the recorded hypnotherapy sessions of 19th century composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, Preludes sees the musician struggle to create music. Penning symphonies in his teens and engaged at an early age, Sergei is then haunted by nightmares. But, can he remain one of the greatest artists of all time.

Preludes

2021

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage poster
9.5

Flawed heroes, sympathetic monsters and haughty professors collide as this hefty poem is rescued from the grasp of 1,000 years of highbrow analysis and transformed into a defiantly raucous musical. Presented by San Francisco's infamous Shotgun Players and New York's infectious Banana Bag & Bodice, this SongPlay is an irreverent dissertation on art versus criticism in blood-soaked Scandinavia.

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

2020

Film credits

Behind the camera