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Elliot Valentine

Based in New York City • New Haven

he/him/his • Member Since 2024

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My Story

Elliot Valentine is a composer, lyricist, librettist and dramaturg. He writes musical theater with Mel Hornyak under the artist name Melliot. He is also a dramaturg, with research interests in speculative fiction, horror, and experimental musical theater. Elliot is a current member of Musical Theatre Factory’s Makers Cohort IV. Works include Ghost Story (Live & In Color Top 4 Finalist 2025, OpenAIR MT Residency 2024), Someone Like Me (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Finalist 2025), Thy Sinful House (New Roots Residency Finalist 2025), Adamandi (Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference Semifinalist 2023) and The Art of Pleasing Princes. Other credits include an immersive extended reality musical for Musical Theatre Factory’s MTFxR Garage (2025), Ring of Keys’ Queering the Gala at The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub (2024), and LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS: a Transmasc Cabaret at the Green Room 42 (2024). Elliot is currently studying Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and holds a B. A. in English, Theater, Music Theater, and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University. For professional inquiries about musicals written by Elliot and Mel Hornyak, please email melliotwrites@gmail.com.

Sexual Orientation
iSexual orientation describes a person's enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction to another person.

Gay

Gender Identity
iOne’s internal, deeply held sense of gender. Some people identify completely with the gender they were assigned at birth (usually male or female), while others may identify with only a part of that gender, or not at all. Some people identify with another gender entirely. Unlike gender expression, gender identity is not visible to others.

Trans man

Race/Ethnicity
iRacial identity is the qualitative meaning one ascribes to one’s racial group, whereas ethnic identity is a concept that refers to one’s sense of self as a member of an ethnic group. At their core, both constructs reflect an individual’s sense of self as a member of a group; however, racial identity integrates the impact of race and related factors, while ethnic identity is focused on ethnic and cultural factors. We celebrate our Keys’ intersectionality and understand that creating one’s racial/ethnic identity is a fluid and nonlinear process that varies for every person. Many folks will identify with more than one background while others will identify with a single group more broadly.

East Asian (Chinese)

Discipline

Composer, Dramaturg

Available for Gender Consulting

Yes, I'm available to provide paid gender consulting services for productions. Learn more about Ring of Keys gender consultants here.

Website

http://elliotvalentine.com