Clay Zambo
Clay Zambo’s music, lyrics, or arrangements have been heard Off-Off Broadway (Modern Living, Downtown Dysfunctionals, The Fall of Eve and Adam, The Woman); in nationally and regionally touring educational-theatre productions (Inside Broadway, National Theatre for the Performing Arts); and an audiobook (Forbidden Fruit). I Am Star Trek (Rick Vorndran, book; Scott Ethier, music) was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and transferred to London. His work has been featured on NPR’s Car Talk and American Public Media’s Performance Today. . Several of his scores were commissioned for premiere at NYC’s Merkin Hall, including Yo, Jonah!, They Fly (a retelling of the myth of Icarus and Daedalus) and an early version of Greenbrier Ghost, which was selected by Stephen Schwartz for development in the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop. Greenbrier Ghost has since been featured in Merkin Hall’s "Bound for Broadway" concert, and in a concert benefiting the theatre company Any Minute Now.
A former faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, he currently teaches at the Lucy Moses School in Manhattan, music-directs productions for the Kaufman Center’s Poppyseed Players, and serves as Director of Music Ministries for Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Connecticut. A member of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild, he is an alumnus of Ohio University’s Honors Tutorial College.
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