Sam Salmond
Sam is a Jonathan Larson Award- winning composer, lyricist, and bookwriter. He wrote music music and lyrics for Eighty-Sixed, based on the novel by David Feinberg, which received a 2022 production at Diversionary Theater and a 2024 workshop with Second Stage. He wrote the score for an original musical, The Homefront, about female factory workers who were fired at the end of WWII. He was commissioned by Penn State's Musical Theater BFA program to write Dust & Embers, a musical about our forgotten queer ancestors. His musical Mother, Me and the Monsters (a Boston Globe Critic’s Pick) was produced at Barrington Stage. His children’s musical, Dot Dot Dot, is currently on a multi-year national tour with Theatreworks USA. He wrote additional lyrics to A Complicated Woman which received a 2024 production at Goodspeed. He’s the creator of Uncool: the Party, an immersive night of rock 'n roll, games, stories and dancing, which was workshopped at CAP21 and the Musical Theatre Factory. He wrote book and lyrics for Cage Match, which premiered at Prospect Theater Company. Sam’s work has been featured at Lincoln Center, The White House, Ars Nova, Symphony Space, Joe's Pub, 54 Below, The Town Hall and venues all around the country. He has been a resident writer at Goodspeed Opera House, the Johny Mercer Colony, The Village Theater, Fresh Ground Pepper and more. He is a 2017 Dramatists Guild Fellow, a 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm resident, and an alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.