Gaby Alter is a songwriter/composer based in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of a 2008 Jonathan Larson grant, the 1998 San Francisco Theater Critics' Circle Award and the 2004 New York Fringe Festival Songwriting Award. He writes for musicals, TV shows, films, video games and radio, as well as his own pop/rock songs.
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He is currently working on BAND GEEKS!, a musical which will be produced at Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theater in May 2010. Other musicals include REALITY! with playwright Itamar Moses (Cape Cod Theater Project, 2008) and the song cycle 29 with Tommy Newman (NYU Steinhardt, 2007.)
Gaby's music has been showcased at the Summer Play Festival (SPF), the Songbook Series at Lincoln Center Library, William Finn's Evening of New Composers at Barrington Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Joe's Pub, NAMT, NYMF, Ars Nova, Merkin Hall and on Sirius Radio.
Gaby writes songs for Mr. Steve on PBS Television, and he composed the theme music for the public radio show Backstory. He starred in and wrote music for the documentary Nerdcore Rising (2008 South by Southwest Film Festival) which is now available on Netflix. He co-writes songs with nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot which have appeared in video games, on cable television and throughout the internet. He is a member of the Dramatists' Guild and ASCAP, and an alum of NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.