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Dan Furman

About Me

Dan Furman hails from Old Hickory, Tennessee (just outside of Nashville). He began playing piano and composing music at an early age and went on to study composition and jazz piano at Oberlin Conservatory. In 2009, he recorded a CD, “We Are Here” (available on Amazon) with his original band, the Primordial Jazz Funktet. After moving to New York in 2003 to play jazz, Dan began writing for music theater as well. He spent 4 years in the BMI Lehman Engels Musical Theater Workshop and his musical, “RIP!,” (now “Impossible But True”), was featured in the 2011 Midtown International Theatre Festival. Dan wrote the theme song for the Big Apple Circus 2010-11 show, “Dance On!” His collaboration with bookwriter Anita Gonzalez, “Ybor City,” was given a staged reading at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Manhattan in the summer of 2015, and later a studio production at the University of Michigan in early 2017. Dan is currently writing book, music and lyrics for The Proust Virus, a musical about video game characters who come to life. He lives in Brooklyn and plays frequently at Cleopatra’s Needle with the Dan Furman Duo or Trio.