Dylan MarcAurele is a New York City-based composer, writer, and orchestrator. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, through which he and writing partner Mike Ross are developing their folk-musical tragicomedy Lewis Loves Clark. He is collaborating with bookwriter-lyricist-performer Deborah Berenson and director Scott Schwartz on the dark comedy musical (slash interactive tea-time etiquette class) Tea with G. He composed the score for the family musical The Land of Forgotten Toys, which premiered in Chicago for a five-week run after being workshopped at the Florida Festival of New Musicals in 2019 and has since had several regional productions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he wrote music and lyrics for The Mystery of Custodia, an online-musical which has since had 70+ productions worldwide, and Miley Chase the Science Ace, a children’s musical selected for the New Works festival at The Barnstormers Theatre in New Hampshire. He is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Dylan also runs the Instagram account @RHONYmusical, where he writes, orchestrates, and directs musical theater songs based on The Real Housewives, as featured on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. He holds a B.A. in Music from Harvard University, ‘16.