Gaby Alter
BIO

Gaby Alter is a songwriter and composer based in Brooklyn. He has written tracks for MTV, PBS, and NPR, and documentaries broadcast on the Sundance Film Channel. He is the recipient of a Jonathan Larson grant, awards from the San Francisco Theater Critics' Circle and the New York Fringe Festival, and a MAC nomination.

Photo by Stephen Mallon

Gaby's stage musicals include NOBODY LOVES YOU with Itamar Moses, which premieres in 2012 at the Old Globe Theater; BAND GEEKS (Goodspeed Musicals 2010); YOUNG ZOMBIES IN LOVE (New York Fringe Festival 2004, Best Songwriting Award); and NOT THAT WE'RE BITTER, a cabaret with Sophie Jaff. His music has been performed at the Public Theater, Barrington Stage Company, Joe's Pub, the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF), The National Alliance of Musical Theater's Festival of New Works, and on Sirius Radio.

Gaby has written songs for PBS Kids TV, music for MTV's 16 and Pregnant, and the theme to the NPR nationally syndicated program Backstory with the American History Guys. He is nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot's keyboardist and has co-written most of his tracks, including YouTube hits "It Is Pitch Dark" and "Bizarro Genius Baby." He scored and starred in the documentary Nerdcore Rising, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and is now available on Netflix Instant Watch. He is a member of ASCAP and an alum of Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

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