Dylan Schifrin (he/him) is a composer, lyricist, librettist, playwright and TV writer specializing in new musical storytelling for the stage and screen.
Based bicoastally between NYC and LA, he is equally informed by the modern theatre, musical theatre, and television landscapes. As a Hispanic, Jewish, and LGBTQ+ artist, he seeks to populate politicized and often satirical worlds with deeply human characters to tell urgent outsider narratives that challenge the inequity of the present moment.
As a theater writer and composer, Dylan has been distinguished by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (NMTC and NPC Semifinalist), Musical Theatre Factory (Makers Cohort III Finalist), New Musicals Inc. (New Voices Project Finalist), IAMA Theatre Company (Emerging Playwrights Lab Member), Prospect Theater Company (MT Lab Participant), The Civilians (R&D Group Semifinalist), The Blank Theatre Company, the National YoungArts Foundation (Finalist in Playwriting), ASCAP, and the Foundation for New American Musicals (MUSI-CAL, SHOWSEARCH Finalist). Dylan is a member of ASCAP, the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and UNTITLED Musicals Project, a new writers group for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ musical theater writers funded by the Dramatists Guild. He is a Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist and an alum of the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. His work has been heard at 54 Below, HERE Arts Center, The Rockwell Table & Stage, and other venues.
Dylan has also placed in several television writing contests and has reached audiences of millions with his work as a songwriter for the social media company Pixel Playhouse, recently picked up to develop an original TV series by NBCUniversal. His work for youth theatre has been produced across the country and internationally via YouthPLAYS. (BA Yale College, Musical Theatre Composition w/ distinction in the major). He is currently seeking representation.
When he's not writing, you can find Dylan lending his musical arranging & notation expertise to the works of established Broadway composers and fellow emerging writers.