Director Jim Hubbard subsequently used the song to create his short filmThe Dance about Biello & Martin's relationship during the AIDS era.
[13][14][15] In 1992, Biello & Martin joined BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and two years later, began working under the mentorship of composer Maury Yeston.
[1] In 1996, Biello & Martin created the musical Fairy Tales, which premiered at Provincetown's Unitarian Universalist Meeting House.
Inspired by its namesake, the musical explores spirituality in the context of gay male milestones through a cycle of short fairytale-like operettas.
[20] Subsequent productions took place during the 2002 Philly Fringe Festival at the couple's workspace, Biello Martin Studio, and then later at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre 5 (2008), and in Allentown PA (2010).
The fictional musical centers around two cousins who decide to update their ancestors' stories, Grimms' Fairy Tales, with queer themes.
[22] An additional developmental workshop took place at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 2008, and in 2009, they premiered a more complete version in Chicago, again with the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre.
[22] In collaboration with book writers Elisabeth Kalogris, Katherine Cipriano, and Melissa Hays, Biello & Martin created In My Body, a musical about body-image and self-worth.
After 40 years of partnership and collaboration, Biello & Martin created Michael & Dan's Amazing Queer Songbook, an online musical memoir.