DAVID CALDWELL

David Caldwell composed music and lyrics for All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh Here Comes Christmas, both based on the writing of Robert Fulghum. He also composed music for Fulghum's novel Third Wish.

David was the music director of Forbidden Broadway from 2004 to 2014. He conducted the American premiere of Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden. He recently music-directed Murder For Two Off- Broadway, as well as three shows in China, with Inner Mongolian authors and casts. He arranged and orchestrated Marvin Hamlisch's song “I'm Really Dancing” for Career Transitions for Dancers' 25th Anniversary Gala, featuring Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera and Bebe Neuwirth. He is the winner of Detroit's Wilde Award for best music-direction, for Meadow Brook Theater's production of The All Night Strut.

David is originally from New Hampshire. He is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory. He is interviewed at length in Oliver Sacks' book about music and the brain, Musicophilia. He is on the faculty of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy, and is married to Alyssa H. Chase.