Composer/Lyricist

Gavin James Knittle is a musical theatre composer/lyricist based in New York City. He holds an MFA as a composer at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (2019) and a B.A. from Pacific University in Theatre and Music. Most recently, his opera, The Thieving Cactus, co written with Ashton Tibbit, was featured at BAM and the NYU Paulson Center as part of The American Opera Project’s Climate Opera Project collection. The Dragon Transfer, which was co-written with Briana Whyte Harris, was produced and turned into a short film in cooperation with the American Opera Project and the Tisch Opera Lab. HAMMER, his musical co written with Richard Lindenfelzer received a developmental production at NYU’s New Studio on Broadway in 2019.