Gaby Alter
Music & Lyrics
GABY ALTER is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson Grant, the San Diego and San Francisco Critics' Circle Awards for Best Original Score, an ASCAP Plus Award in Musical Theater, and the ASCAP Composer's Spotlight at the LA Film Festival. His musical NOBODY LOVES YOU, with playwright Itamar Moses, premiered at The Old Globe Theater in San Diego and had its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Theater, where it was both a New York Times and Timeout New York Critics' Pick. Gaby and Itamar wrote the song The Frigate That Flies for the Disney animated feature film TINKERBELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY, sung by Tom Hiddleston. Other stage musicals include BAND GEEKS which premiered at Goodspeed Musicals, is now licensed by Music Theatre International and features Gaby's hit audition song Lost In The Brass. Songs for the revue STARS OF DAVID (Daryl Roth Productions) also featuring original songs by Jeanine Tesori, Marvin Hamlisch, Tom Kitt, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, was produced Off-Broadway at DR2 Theater and toured nationally. In addition, Gaby has written songs and soundtracks for PBS Kids TV, NPR, and MTV; scored the film 3RD STREET BLACKOUT (MarVista) starring Janeane Garofalo and John Hodgman, which premiered at the LA Film Festival; and co-wrote the soundtrack to and starred in the documentary NERDCORE RISING (Vaguely Qualified Productions) which premiered at South by Southwest. He has also co-written tracks with Nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot which have over 2 million views on YouTube.
He is an alumnus of NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and an ASCAP member.
