David Quang Pham is a musical theater science communicator who writes science musicals, consults on stories that explore STEM, and interviews out-of-the-world musical writers. Be up to lightspeed at davidquang.com
David Quang Pham is a musical theater science communicator. His musicals personifying astrophysics, quantum mechanics, and botany are respectively: Ellipses (2024 Syracuse NWNV semifinalist; 2023 Theatre About Science International Conference; 2023 Musical Theatre Factory, Signature Theatre; 2023 Milky Way Theatre Company, Theatre 71; 2022 Colorado New Musical Festival; 2022 O'Neill semifinalist), Tour (2020 Downtown Urban Arts Festival finalist), and Turnover: A New Leaf (2024 The Tank Pridefest; 2024 Theatre on the Verge, Abington Art Center; 2023 Undiscovered Countries). Janelle Lawrence mentors him, helping to forge his broad range of musical styles including pop, punk, tango, and Cai Luong. After completing an astrophysics and theatre education at Michigan State University, he studied playwriting as a Working Title Playwrights apprentice in Atlanta and Playwrights Foundation fellow in San Francisco. He plays trombone in the Queer Big Apple Corps and professionally in Marching Band Casting. Be up to lightspeed at sciencetheatre.us and @sciencetheatre.
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Interview with David Quang Pham
Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: A musical for a few years since I was in electrostatics II.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: Particle physics.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Digital. Less noise.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: A satellite phone, a GPS locator, a fishing rod, a water purifier, and some seeds.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: I have long dreamed to be a science communicator in any kind of medium. Musical full time by the end of 2017.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: Absent of reprises.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Jazz as a former student in all things jazz, ska for my hometown preference, and choral because it is enlightening.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: I am not perfect in anything in particular, so I will explain like derivatives in calculus: Underlying, if I am willing to learn and be at least good at it, I will.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: An investigative insight on science-based musicals.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: Three words: no sleep ing.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: As a dramaturge, I would assist in the research of a field writers or songwriters are storytelling for. As a musical dramatist, I make way as a composer and lyricist.
- TromboneAverage price - $70 per song
- Composer OrchestralAverage price - $70 per song
- Downtown Urban Arts Festival Announces 2020 FinalistsJan 21, 2020
Augusto Federico AmadorChima ChikazungaAlan “Rock” WILKJ. E. RobinsonBarbara Blumenthal-EhrlichLaDarrion WilliamsMelissa RoseD. Q. PhamSheila DuaneJason TsengFred CreccaJeremy Rafal
https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-off-broadway/article/Downtown-Urban-Arts-Festival-Announces-2020-Finalists-20191119
