BIOGRAPHY
Update September, 2003

DARRYL CURRY works as a composer, lyricist, playwright and musical director in numerous venues in New York City and around the country.  Most recently he wrote incidental music for the 20^th Anniversary production of The Elephant Man, and has had two musical works commissioned - “The 46^th Street Mass,” which was performed at St. Clement's Episcopal Church in New York, and the ballet “My Shadow,” based on the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, which was performed at the Staten Island Ballet.

Previously he was a playwright/composer-in-residence at The Third Step Theatre Company in New York City from 1989 to 1992.  He received critical acclaim for his musical The Elephant Piece, produced by Third Step in February, 1991, and his "black comedy" musical, Quitters, was presented at Third Step Studio subsequently.  His play Blue Skies was featured in Third Step's second annual Spring Festival of Staged Readings, and his play Heavenly Sunlight won the "Best of the Fest" award in the third annual Festival.  In March, 1992, his 10-minute play Time's Here (which later received a production in Atlanta by The Parenthesis Theatre Club as part of The Buckhead Shorts) was presented as part of Third Step's Cornerpieces.

 Other Off-Broadway credits include Will Kemp at the Sandford Meisner Theatre and the T.O.M.I. Theatre; Dancing on the Third Rail at the Nameless; The Party Girl at the New York Hilton West (optioned for Broadway production); Brothers and Sisters at New York Theatre Ensemble; and The Inheritance at AMDA.  His musical One Hundred Years (based on "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) appeared at Another Stage Workshop Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.  He received a staged reading of his musical Dorian Gray at the Theatre @ St. Clements in New York City, and his musical George Q (with lyricist and bookwriter Margit Ahlin) was staged at St. Clement's in December of 2000.

 Mr. Curry has written a collection of Spanish songs with Jose R. Sanchez, many of which were part of a Spanish Extravaganza at Weill Recital Hall, performed with string quartet by soprano Kathleen Cuvelier and tenor Efren Piug.  Cuvelier also performed the world premiere of  Mr. Curry’s setting of Dylan Thomas’ Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night at Merkin Concert Hall.  The Heliotrope Group featured Mr. Curry's compositions in two programs - Nevertheless It's Love at CAMI Hall and Return Address at Pulse Ensemble Theatre.  Mr. Curry's musical direction was seen at Don’t Tell Mama’s, The Space @ St. Clement’s, Danny’s Skylight Room, the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Palm Room and in other concerts, including An Evening with Sam (Sam Raphling, poetry by Langston Hughes), and the staged concert Remembrances.

 Mr. Curry is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he received the Lawrence A. Hutton Scholarship Award.  He obtained his Master's Degree in Music from Temple University, and also attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York where he was granted the Special Achievement Award.  He is a member of the Dramatists' Guild, MAC and ASCAP.

DARRYL CURRY, 2020 Broadway
New York, NY 10023-5012

Phone: (212) 787-6168
E-mail: dcurry2020@aol.com