Daniel Seligman is a 23-year-old composer and lyricist living in New York City. Originally from Bethesda, Maryland, he is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College's Writing for the Stage program and privately studies music with Adam Guettel. He and his collaborator, director Mia Ehrlich, have been creating musicals together since they were fifteen. Throughout college, Seligman worked on Broadway,
assisting Guettel on DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES and FLOYD COLLINS. He also has experience working in recording studios such as The Power Station and the DiMenna Center, having assisted on the recording and mixing of the original Broadway cast recordings for DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES, FLOYD COLLINS, and ONCE UPON A MATTRESS. Additionally, he has worked closely with ASCAP, NATS, and the Library of Congress’s Music Division. As a composer, Seligman works with Ehrlich to create original musicals. He is drawn to original stories that pit the ordinary against the extraordinary. In 2023, the duo
self-produced a fully staged and orchestrated production of a musical Seligman wrote throughout college, SWEET MOTHER OF CHRIST, the original story of a sixteen-year-old girl who becomes a modern-day Mother Mary. Currently, they are developing THE 1000 YEAR OLD MAN, a new musical about an immortal man, stuck alive, who spends a fateful night on a New York City rooftop with a girl who changes everything. Seligman and Ehrlich’s partnership began in high school, though
the aspiring theatre-makers were briefly sidelined when a certain Global Health Crisis ended their high school careers early. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the team experimented with new ways of developing musicals from home. They mounted two fully virtual workshops of new works, one of which featured a cast of twelve high school actors all performing live from different spaces. In addition to his larger projects, Seligman writes bespoke songs for musical theatre performers. Recently, his song “Too Little Time” was performed by Anna Zavelson at her debut 54 Below show and her concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 2026, Seligman & Ehrlich founded their company, 411 Music. Raised on classic rock, and with inspirations ranging from Paul McCartney to Stephen Sondheim, Seligman strives to create a unique sound in all his work. When he’s not writing, he’s usually thinking about writing—or about his pug, Louie.
