About

Earl Marrows is a Green Room Award nominated composer, director, and writer based in Naarm, Melbourne. He has written music for all manner of dramatic forms including television, film and stage. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (Masters of Fine Arts - Musical Theatre Writing), Earl has written an array of original musical theatre pieces, including two major full length musicals and five short works. Most recently he collaborated with the New Studio on Broadway and Bookwriter/Lyricist Carrie Caffrey to develop his new original musical For Show which has since been performed in Toronto, Canada as well as at acclaimed New York Cabaret Venue, 54 Below.

His musical theatre work has been selected to be a part of the Lincoln Centre Library “Broadway’s Future Songbook” two years in a row. Earl’s first full-length musical theatre piece “Holloway: A New Musical” was staged in October of 2018 in Melbourne and sold out every performance over a two week run. He is  also part of comedy musical theatre writing duo Marshall and Marrows whose two original musicals “Pining for Affection: A Tree Musical” and “Tone Death: A Ghost Musical” enjoyed full seasons as part of both the Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in both 2018 and 2019.  In 2024 Pining For Affection was restaged and subsequently nominated for the Green Room Award for ‘Best New Australian Musical Theatre Writing’. He collaborated with the Red Stitch Actors Theatre in 2019 composing music for the Australian premiere of Will Eno’s Wakey Wakey. Further credits include: On Hope: Digital Song Cycle (Developed in collaboration with The Other Palace), placing in Runner Up in the Mercury Theatre Songwriting competition, The GMTWP Pandemic Project: Twenty Twenty and composing for Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre’s new song cycle: Village Song.

As a screen composer Earl has composed for several short films including Jordan Law’s Littlefish. Earl has also written for television with his work appearing every Friday at 6pm on ABC’s hit sports talk-show “Sideliners”

Earl completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music with Honours at Monash University in Melbourne majoring in performance and musical composition. Earl won the Monash University and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) Pizzicato Effect Composition Prize and subsequently had his work performed by the MSO and Pizzicato Effect ensemble.