Dylan Glatthorn

**Dylan Glatthorn** is an american composer and lyricist born on March 25th. He is known for working for many famous companies, musicals, and film. He has been of great help to Shipwrecked Comedy when it comes to their music department. You can also support him by buying his work on Bandcamp!

## Life

Dylan Glatthorn was born on March 25th in Flordia. He grew up and lived in in Saint Petersburg, Flordia until he moved away for college. From a young age, he began to act and play piano. His first experince with performing was during a school talent show; he sang "Yankee Doodle Dandy" while wearing a top hat. After this, he was really hooked on music and performing. Dylan joined a song and dance troupe called "Pizzaz." It was undeniable that he had talent!

When it came time for middle school, he auditioned for John Hopkins which is a performing arts magnet middle school. He successfully got in, and learned much about the arts here. After, he attended a performing arts high school, Gibbs. Between these two schools, he met the majority of his current friend group- including William J. Stribling. During high school, at the age of roughly 16, he also wrote an orignal musical that was performed at a local theatre!

After high school, Dylan moved out to Brooklyn, NY to attend college at New York Univerisity (NYU)! At NYU, he studied the program of Music Theory and Composition. For this degree, he recieved his first Alan Menken scholarship award which helped him be able to pay for his schooling. After he got his Bachelors, he realised he was also intrugied by scoring film! So, he went back to NYU, and he attnded their Masters program for Scoring Film and Multimedia. As it turns out, Alan Menken also has a scholarhip award that applies to this program! Dylan applied and also was awarded this scholarship; this made him the first two time recipient of an Alan Menken Award! Dylan credits most of his ability of being able to study music to Menken. He has been able to meet Menken several times, and he thanked him for his scholarship awards after a gala performance at Four Seasons (Menken actually recognized Dylan by name, which led to a slight fan moment).

Since then, Dylan has continued to compose for both film and theatre! His many connections have allowed him to work on many cool projects such as multiple big name commercials, musical artists, nine feature films, several theatre productions, and much more. Dylan has also won and been nominated for several awards such as an Honorable Mention by *Independent Shorts Awards* for Best Original Score of "Fractured Souls." In his more personal life, he married his partner, Julie Glatthorn, in 2019. The two have traveled to several places including, but not limited to, Ireland and Italy. Dylan continues to reside happily with his wife in Brooklyn, NY while he works bicostal. In late 2022, the pair also welcomed the birth of their baby boy, Owen.

## Education

He attended John Hopkins in St. Petersburg for middle school and Gibbs performing arts high school.

Dylan recived his Bachelors in Music Theory and Composition and his Masters in Scoring Film and Multimedia from NYU.

## Shipwrecked Comedy

Since Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party, Dylan has scored many of Shipwrecked's projects. He has also helped the group write three songs for their youtube channel!

During Poe Party, the group was looking for someone to score their show. With the help of William J. Stribling, they became aquainted with Dylan Glatthorn. Dylan was very interested in the concept of Poe Party and loved the Shipwrecked group, so he was excited to help them. By listening to previous sounds they had used and understanding the general vibe of the show, he composed the score of Poe Party. The shortest time that he managed to score an episode in was 5 hours! Dylan's attention to detail, process, and genius helped create a perfect score for Poe Party that continues to blow Shipwrecked and viewers away.

Since this, he has returned to work with Shipwrecked frequently; the two compliment eachother well! He has also helped score basically every project since Poe Party. Dylan has scored larger things like The Case of the Gilded Lily, American Whoopee, Edgar Allan Poe's A Cryptmas Carol, Little VVomen, A Book by its Cover, Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, and The Case of the Greater Gatsby. Along with these, he has also had his music appear in smaller videos for Shipwrecked such as the Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party extras videos, The Case of the Gilded Lily extras vidoes, American Whoopee BTS, youtube channel trailers, and the Headless Kickstarter video. When creating a score for Shipwrecked, Glatthorn often tries to rely on his previous knowledge of the era, creative instinct, and tone required for that type of project. From these base ideas, he will tailor the music and add more details so that it creates a full score! The end product is always a masterpiece that helps elevate and highlight the scenes, characters, and projects as a whole.

Dylan also has helped Shipwrecked with the majority of their songs. He has written two songs for the character Vivian Nightingale (played by Mary Kate Wiles) to sing. The first song, "Change of Scene", was featured in Gilded Lily (aka The Case of the Gilded Lily). Change of Scene is the first appearance of Vivian in the noir, and it is later used as a transition between scenes. Due to the last minute idea of it, the song was writen in roughly a week. In order to make the sound of it more cohesive with Gilded Lily, some instruments like strings and horns were added. The second song he wrote for Vivian's character is "The Benefits of Being My Man". He wrote this one in about two weeks, and it is more "pure" Jazz sound. More recently, he cowrote "Friends 'til the End" with Sean Persaud and Sinéad Persaud. The song is the first duet he has helped write for Shipwrecked; it's sung by Sinéad and Mary Kate as the characters Mina and Lucy from *Dracula*. They wrote it over several back and forth *Zoom* calls. After the initial lyrics were written, Dylan built the track, Sinéad and Mary Kate recorded their vocals in LA, and Dylan finished the production process back in NY.

Dylan also scored Shipwrecked's newest series, Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story. He worked on the project for several months. Once every episode was picture locked, they would be sent to him to begin scoring.

## Other Projects

Over the years, Dylan has accumulated over 60 credits in the realms of composing and music. He has worked on commercials and other forms of film, theatre, music, and some personal projects.

The majority of his repertoire comes from film. He has worked on a large variety of productions such as commericals, shorts, series, documentaries, and feature length films. On commercials, he has worked with brands like Lindt, Nickelodeon, PBS, Red Bull, and more! Other film that he is best known for are movies such as *Lies I Told my Little Sister, Bear With Us,* and *Painter.* However, no matter the scale of the film project, he enjoys infusing lots of detial, care, and importance. In his work life, Dylan values and enjoys film just as much as theatre.

Over the years, his love for theatre has only grown. He helps numerous theatre groups score and record their projects; one group he has worked with several times is Orange Grove Dance. Dylan has also been awarded for his work with various theatre groups. In the past, he has also worked for the USO Show Troupe as a music director and arranger. The group recruits famous singers and performs to put on a show for servicemen and women and their familes. In addition to this, Dylan also has experince putting together caberet shows for popular venues. These caberets consist of many great singers including well known broadway performers and Diana DeGarmo.

Dylan has assisted many singers put together albums and recordings of their own. Depending on the artist, the role he takes on is different. He might assist them with direction, writing, composing, arranging, producing, or any other number of things! Glatthorn has been a great help to Diana DeGarmo with her music- especially on the creation of her album *Gemini*. He's also worked on projects with artists such as Lolo, Dirty Pedals, Alexa Green, Michelle Dowdy, and others. In addition to helping other musicians fufill their project dreams, he also works on personal musical projects.

One personal project of Dylan's is creating musicals with Will Lacker. Over the years, the two have written four musicals: *The Pelican, Bittersweet Lullaby, Edison,* and *Republic.*

Their most recent musical, *The Pelican,* began as an idea in 2018. However, they wanted to make it more developed, so they had to hold off on most of its production until around 2020. During this time, the pair was able to work on the musical in a writers' lab. The musical is about a costal town in future Flordia that has been made almost unlivable due to climate change and rising sea levels. A dangerous hurricane causes the remaining residents to pick between staying there or heading to a safer overbearing-coperate city. In 2022, the musical was also a part of the NAMT festival.

In 2018, they also wrote the 10 minute long musical, *Bittersweet Lullaby;* It follows "Two struggling songwriters live in the same apartment decades apart. In one magical night, their voices connect through time and they begin a collaboration that leaves them forever changed." The musical premired at the 2019 *Sound Bites* Festival and can now be bought/liscened through several websites. Previous to these two musicals, Glatthorn and Lacker made the musical *Edison*; it follows a young and ambitious Thomas Edison, and you can listen to several of the demos on soundcloud. The two first collaberated on the musical *Republic* which was about the Irish fight for independence. The musical was able to have a staged reading in 2009 that featured an excellent cast. Dylan and Will have not spoken much about future collaborations, but they have many other ideas.

## Other Tidbits

* While Dylan didn't know Sinéad Persaud at NYU, the two did have a mutual friend, William J. Stribling. Becuase of this, there once was a short film, during their time at NYU, called "Liftoff" that Dylan scored, William (Joe) directed, and Sinéad wrote!
* Dylan's favourtie film scores are *Back to the Future* and *The Rocketeer.*
* His favourite score that he's done for Shipwrecked is Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party because it encoperates a lot of musical elements he enjoys and was his first project that he worked with Shipwrecked for.
* He looks up to musicians such as John Williams, Jason Robert Brown, Leonard Berstein, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, and the Beatles.
* Dylan has helped produce and score several podcasts (including ones made by Shipwrecked Comedy).
* While Scoring the Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story kickstarter, he wrote a short joke score that made it feel like a hbo high-budget drama.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 SC Isolation Livestream 4
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Dylan Glatthorn Website
3. ↑ Dylan Glatthorn IMDB-awards
4. ↑ Instagram post announcing Owen's birth
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Shipwrecked Podcast 405
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 BFE podcast episode "Dylan Glatthorn: a BFE Interview- Headless, Shipwrecked, & more"
7. ↑ Dylan Glatthorn IMDB
8. ↑ Gemini Release
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Additional *Republic* Info (via *Playbill)*
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Behind the Lab: Episode 1
11. ↑ NAMT "Announcing the 34th Annual Festival of New Musicals"
12. ↑ TNNY licensing