CARMEL DEAN is a Grammy-nominated musical theatre multi-hyphenate hailing from Australia and based in New York City. A Composer/Lyricist, Music Supervisor, Arranger, Orchestrator and Musical Director, her work has been performed on Broadway, the West End and internationally.
Most recently, her new musical Maiden Voyage premiered at London’s Southwark Playhouse. She has been commissioned to write the music and lyrics to The Ghost and Mrs Muir, currently in development in London. Her first musical, Renascence, was produced Off-Broadway by the award-winning Transport Group, and was named Best New Musical at the 2018 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. The Cast album is available on Apple Music and Spotify.
Her crucially-acclaimed song cycle Well-Behaved Women has enjoyed multiple productions around the world, including New York’s Town Hall & Joe’s Pub, Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and Cadogan Hall in London. A studio album starring Broadway stars LaChanze, Bonnie Milligan, Jenn Colella, Liz Callaway, Barbara Walsh and Andrea Burns, among others, is available on Spotify.
As a Musical Supervisor and/or Arranger/Orchestrator her Broadway credits include The Notebook, Funny Girl (Revival), If/Then, Hands on a Hardbody, American Idiot, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as well as Clueless in the West End. Off-Broadway credits include Everyday Rapture, Vanities and Elegies (by William Finn). International credits include Chicago in Hong Kong and the 2000 Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Sydney. Carmel also served as Chita Rivera’s Musical Director for many national and international appearances, and she performed with Green Day on the Grammy Awards in 2010.
Carmel is a native of Perth, Western Australia, and received a B.Mus. from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). In 2001 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States, and subsequently graduated from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program with a MFA in Musical Theatre Writing. She is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Workshop.
Carmel currently resides in New York City.
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