ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MUSICAL THEATRE AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY
Songwriter | Artist | Composer | director | Voiceover actor
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Ronvé O’Daniel is a proud alumni and Assistant Professor at Wright State University in Dayton, OH. He is an award winning songwriter, playwright, actor, director, hip-hop recording artist whose work has been produced Off-Broadway, as well as TheatreWorks Silicon Valley New Works Festival, Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony Residency at Goodspeed Theater, NYU-Tisch School for the Arts, and many other theaters around the country.
Ronvé is the recipient of Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference’s Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award – given to only one lyricist every summer who exemplifies a promising career in musical theater writing. Currently, Ronvé has recently come onboard as composer for the Off-Broadway production of Charles Randolph-Wright’s Duke & Roya, starring Jay Ellis and directed by Warren Adams. He is also collaborating with concert composer Gilad Cohen on Here We Stand, a classical/hip-hop fusion piece featuring two rappers/singers and a large ensemble that is inspired by singer/activist Paul Robeson. |
In addition, he is working with longtime collaborators Jevares Myrick and J Kyle Manzay on Greenwood: The Black Wallstreet Musical, an original piece based on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, which is being developed in partnership with Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA.
Ronvé’s albums include: Motivation Music (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal) and He Speaks So Well (available on Bandcamp). He is also a co-writer for the children’s hip hop song series Uncle Apple (21.1K monthly listeners on Spotify).
His composer/lyricist works include: Superhero (Off-Broadway Composer/Sound Designer), The Earth Remembers (Virginia Stage Company), What’s Going On - Songs of Change (92NY Lyrics & Lyricists Series), Once Upon a Rhyme (NYU Tisch, Uproar Theatrics), The Hippest Wizard of OZ, Beautiful Hair (City Springs Theatre Company, Uproar Theatrics), Letters to the President, The Earth Remembers (Virginia Public Works), The New Girl (Concord Theatricals).
As an educator and teaching artist, Ronvé has held residencies and taught masterclasses on songwriting, musical theatre performance and hip-hop performance for various organizations and institutions including Wright State University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and Auburn University.
Ronvé’s albums include: Motivation Music (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal) and He Speaks So Well (available on Bandcamp). He is also a co-writer for the children’s hip hop song series Uncle Apple (21.1K monthly listeners on Spotify).
His composer/lyricist works include: Superhero (Off-Broadway Composer/Sound Designer), The Earth Remembers (Virginia Stage Company), What’s Going On - Songs of Change (92NY Lyrics & Lyricists Series), Once Upon a Rhyme (NYU Tisch, Uproar Theatrics), The Hippest Wizard of OZ, Beautiful Hair (City Springs Theatre Company, Uproar Theatrics), Letters to the President, The Earth Remembers (Virginia Public Works), The New Girl (Concord Theatricals).
As an educator and teaching artist, Ronvé has held residencies and taught masterclasses on songwriting, musical theatre performance and hip-hop performance for various organizations and institutions including Wright State University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and Auburn University.