David Rigano

David Rigano is an award-winning musical theatre writer and director. With his brother and collaborator Paul Rigano, he has written book, music, and lyrics to You Heard It Here (NY Winterfest 2017 Award for Best Score), We Were Wild, Get the Duchess, and Awaken: a Sleeping Beauty musical. Together they also wrote the score for The Holy Cows of Credence South Dakota with bookwriter Mark-Eugene Garcia and created the long running Ides of March Extravaganza. David and Paul were awarded a 2018 Town Stages Fellowship to produce their musical talk show "Broadway On Deck," and their 2020 music video "Screen to Screen" won the Rave Theatre Social Distancing Festival. David's plays include Life Lessons with Susan Gail, What We Deserve, Not the Same Old Story, and Opposite Attraction. As a director David has helmed new musicals through workshops and initial productions, such as Nutcracker! the Musical, Wild Women of Planet Wongo, All Star: the Best Broadway Musical, and his own award-winning You Heard It Here. When not directing or writing, David can be found cooking and binging murder mysteries with his cat. Please follow @RiganoSongbook for more information.