1:1 Chat with Carmel Dean

The 1:1 Chats are a monthly online interview series delving into craft and process with industry professionals across the spectrum of disciplines. This month’s conversation will be led by composer, lyricist & MTW Associate Artist, LUKE DI SOMMA.

CARMEL DEAN is an Australian-born, New-York based composer/lyricist, musical director, and arranger. Her compositional debut, , (with a book by Tony Award-nominee Dick Scanlan) was produced Off-Broadway by the acclaimed theatre company Transport Group, and subsequently won the 2018 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical. Her song cycle  about bad-ass, game-changing historical women, premiered at Joe’s Pub in January 2020 to sold-out performances and recently received rave reviews for its production in Sydney, Australia. She has been commissioned to write a new musical with Mindi Dickstein for New Works Provincetown/Mark Cortale.Renascence,(Little Women)Well-Behaved Women

As a Broadway Musical Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger, Carmel’s credits include (starring Idina Menzel),, , and . She is the Musical Supervisor/Arranger/Co-Orchestrator of the…