Daniel Emond is a Queens-based composer, performer, and writer of musicals. His Moby-Dick rock opera KILL THE WHALE has seen development at Joe's Pub, Yaddo, Montclair State University Peak Performances, Polyphone Festival, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Cork- screw Festival, NYU, the Melville bi-Centennial Conference, and Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, and has received funding through the American Theatre Wing, the Saw Recording Grants, and the NYFA. His sophomore project, Mind Canary: A Freudian Musical is a musical dreamscape around Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, set in the Freudian dreamspace. Peak Performances at MSU has commissioned a third draft, and it has also seen development at Adelphi University, the Good Hart Residency, Yaddo, and the emergence residency at Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City. Emond has also been commissioned to compose music for the Hong Kong Arts Festival (2021) and Catskills Mountain Shakespeare (2025).