We are pleased to introduce you to the incredible Beardo music team, who will be bringing to life Dave Malloy’s powerful and eclectic score.
“The music of Beardo is very much straddling two worlds. There’s the music of the Russian aristocracy and the palace, and that world is very much classical and based around a string quartet. Then there’s the world of Beardo. He comes from the countryside and is more of a rough character. His music is more raw and draws more from folk and rock and even some techno traditions. So the music pulls from a wide spectrum of styles. There’s a Patsy Cline number, and a ukulele number, and the whole third act is a Russian ballet for a string quartet.”
– Dave Malloy, Composer
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Music Team
Dave Malloy (Composer) is a composer/writer/performer/sound designer. His shows include Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (now on Broadway); Ghost Quartet; Preludes; Black Wizard/Blue Wizard; Three Pianos; All Hands; Beardo; Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage; The Sewers; Sandwich; Clown Bible; and (The 99-cent) Miss Saigon. He is the winner of two Obie Awards, the Richard Rodgers Award, an ASCAP New Horizons Award, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. Future projects include The Happiness of Fish (a show about Taoism, atheism and evolution), and adaptations of Moby-Dick and Shakespeare’s Henriad. He lives in Brooklyn. davemalloy.com
Sam Kulik (Guitar/Conductor) has been making creative music and theater in New York City since 2004. His recent recording The Broadcast is his own play-by-play commentary of a complete baseball game set to original music and released as a collectible set of baseball cards. Another artistic highlight was his collaboration with the band Talibam! on an opera/recording/comic book about Atlantis, sex, and environmental catastrophe. Other theater collaborations include work with Normandy Sherwood, Cesar Alvarez, Cynthia Hopkins, the Talking Band, and Banana Bag & Bodice. www.samkulik.com
Ezra Gale (bass) has toured West Africa, Europe and North America with various bands playing various styles of music, and since settling down in New York City some years ago he now tours Brooklyn, Manhattan and sometimes even Queens. He’s been privileged to perform in Jason Craig and Dave Malloy’s Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage and Sandwhich, as well as Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and the theater production of Cassavetes’ Shadows. He also leads the NYC bands Super Hi-Fi (dub), Molly Tigre (afro-jazz) and Bourbon Sprawl (country).
Sarah Elizabeth Haines (violin) is a New York City-based violist, violinist, vocalist, and performer. She has toured with Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy, as well as being a part of the original run at Beth Morrison Project’s Prototype Festival 2015. She is an ecstatic member of Contemporaneous, and co-manages with Jessica Clinton the Brooklyn-based Americana group Bellehouse, as well as being violist and vocalist for Emanuel and the Fear, and for Kenyon Phillips and the Ladies in Waiting, with whom she performs in the burlesque circus glam rock opera The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips. In addition, she also played the run of Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond’s Iow@ at Playwrights Horizons in the spring of 2015, and has played on many musical and theatrical productions throughout the Tri-State Area.
Serena Ebony Miller (cello) is an actress/cellist/vocalist/ bassist from Baltimore and Pittsburgh, who is thrilled to be a part of Beardo! Recent appearances: Madam Pompey Overdone in Measure for Measure (The Drilling Company), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The DC/ Shakespeare in the Parking Lot), Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays Festival 2016, Henrietta in Salty Folk. Currently, she is working on a cello score for a new play called La Bestia, by Tom Block. She has additionally performed at various venues such as Ars Nova, The Cutting Room, The Bitter End, Heinz Hall, The Metropolitan Room, and many a church. Serena also loves to write, and is the resident Music Director for EndTimes Productions. 2510/100. www.serenaemiller.com