Dan Furman

Dan hails from Old Hickory, Tennessee (near Nashville). After moving to New York in 2003 to play jazz, he began writing for music theatre as well. He spent four years in the BMI Lehman Engels Musical Theater Workshop. Furman is director of Brooklyn Tavern Theater, which puts on original musicals in taverns in Brooklyn and beyond. He is the composer/lyricist/book writer of Impossible But True, and composer and lyricist for Ybor City (with Anita Gonzalez, book writer) and Sign In the Six O’Clock Sky (with bookwriter Arnold Schulman). He is currently developing The Proust Virus a musical about video game characters who come to life when Proust is uploaded into their game and Joe Hill the next Brooklyn Tavern Theater musical.