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Biography

ANDREA DALY is a composer, songwriter, and singer based in Brooklyn, NY. She writes theatre, pop, singer-songwriter, and classical work, and holds a PhD in Music Composition from Stony Brook University. Her work is published by Concord Music and Warner/Chappell Music.

Andrea is currently writing book/music/lyrics of a new original musical theatre commission from Barbara Whitman Productions & Grove Entertainment, collaborating with orchestrator/co-composer Dominic Fallacaro. Her first musical, "Legendale" (with Jeff Bienstock), received a World Premiere in Denmark and an American Premiere in Ohio, both in 2017. In 2016, she received The ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Musical Theater Award. Andrea is also an alumna of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in New York (2016), the ASCAP/Dreamworks Workshop in L.A. (2016), the NAMT Festival of New Musicals (2015), the Goodspeed Musicals Writers’ Colony (2014), the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project (2012), and a member of The Dramatists Guild of America.

When not writing, Andrea freelances as a session singer, performer, and audio editor (ProTools, Sonic), collaborating with Grammy-winning producers, artists and engineers. She is a voting member of The Recording Academy.