Andrea Daly

Andrea Daly is a composer, songwriter and singer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her multi-genre output is rooted in pop and soul/Motown, but ranges to classical orchestral music and musical theatre.

Daly is an alum of the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project workshop in Chicago (2012), and of the Goodspeed Musicals Writers’ Colony in Connecticut (2014). She has a publishing contract with Warner/Chappell Music, where she writes for both herself and other artists. She has released multiple recordings and performs regularly in New York at Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium, and other venues.

After a first reading in November, 2014, Daly’s new musical Legendale (with Jeff Bienstock, bookwriter/lyricist) was selected by NAMT for its 27th Annual Festival of New Musicals, and presented to an industry audience at New World Stages in October 2015. The cast featured James Monroe Iglehart (Tony winner for Aladdin), Jake Epstein (Gerry Goffin in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), and Emily Padgett (Side Show, ’14 revival), under the direction of John Simpkins (Bloodsong of Love).

A Michigan native, Daly received her PhD in Composition in 2014 from Stony Brook University in New York, where she was honored both with the university’s prestigious five-year Graduate Council Fellowship, the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2015 Ackerman Prize in Music. She has a B.A. in Music from Kenyon College in Ohio, graduating summa cum laude with Highest Honors and the David B. Perry Prize.

Daly has backpacked or traveled in Turkey, China, Fiji, Peru, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Monaco, Honduras, Belize, England, Spain, Mexico, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, St. Maarten, and Ireland. From 2006-2007 she lived and taught elementary school in southern France.