Matt Dahan (he/him)
Music and Lyrics
Matt Dahan is a multi-platform composer-lyricist.
The movie-musical How Sweet It Is – for which Matt’s score and original songs were recognized with three semifinalist positions at the 86th Academy Awards – proved to be a watershed moment. He would go on to co-write the song “Beyond the Shore”, featured in the Oscar winning film CODA, which garnered a Hollywood Music in Media award for Best Song (Independent Film) and a place on the 94th Academy Awards shortlist.
After contributing songs and score to the series Break: The Musical – a project that earned him the Indie Series Award for Best Soundtrack – he teamed up with playwright Kelly Lynne D’Angelo to create live stage musicals. This partnership lead to an adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo (music; LA: Hollywood Fringe Festival), and Starry – based on the lives of Vincent and Theo van Gogh (music/lyrics; LA: Rockwell Table & Stage, NYC: 54 Below). His melodies can also be heard in The Babies (Off-Broadway: St. Luke’s Theatre) and The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (LA: Theatre West).
Matt became music director for the cross-platform theatre company Team Starkid (A Very Potter Musical, Starship) in 2018. Since joining, he has produced for records three Billboard Top-Ten Cast Albums (Nerdy Prudes Must Die: #1; Black Friday: #1; The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals: #6), and a BroadwayWorld.com regional award for Best Music Director (LA: The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals).
He currently writes and performs in the musical science-fiction radio-series Pulp Musicals, and has several stage projects in the works. Proud Bostonian and Berklee College of Music alum.
