Daniel Emond

Daniel (he/him) is a Queens-based composer, writer, and performer. His Moby-Dick rock opera KILL THE WHALE has seen development at Joe's Pub, Yaddo, Montclair State University Peak Performances, Polyphone Festival, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Corkscrew Festival, NYU, the Melville bicentennial conference, and Nantucket Theatre Workshop, and has received funding through the American Theatre Wing, the Saw Recording Grants, and the NYFA. Other composing credits include the multilingual score to the International Production of Neil Bartlett’s The Plague at Hong Kong Arts Festival 2021, and DAWN, a new Folk Musical, at Signature Theatre.

In 2022, Daniel workshopped a dream musical about Freud as an artist-in- Residence at Culture Lab at the Plaxall Gallery and at the Good Hart Residency in Michigan, and in 2024 he performed the piece as a song cycle at Adelphi University this Fall, on September 14th 2024, as part of the Larson Legacy concert series.

Daniel is a 2023 Jonathan Larson grant recipient, a 2023 Saw recording grant recipient, the recipient of a 2023 NYFA grant, and a 2023 CREATE finalist with the American Composers Forum.

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