Dan Shore (born 1975) is an American composer and playwright from Allentown, Pennsylvania, whose works include The Beautiful Bridegroom, An Embarrassing Position, Travel, Works of Mercy, and Lady Orchid.
Shore attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied composition with Lee Hyla, Malcolm Peyton, and Scott Wheeler.
He spent four years as a composer and lyricist in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and studied opera composition in Denmark on a Fulbright Program grant.
[1] Another comic opera, An Embarrassing Position, based on a sketch by the same name by Kate Chopin, received a Big Easy Entertainment Award in 2011.
[5] In August 2016, a suite of excerpts from the opera was performed in Mexico City with La Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería.