David Quang Pham (he/they) is an award-winning Vietnamese-American songwriter and filmmaker based in Manhattan, known for creating musicals that personify scientific concepts to explore the human condition.

Influences

_Books

11-22-63; Alice in Wonderland; Beatrice the Sixteenth; Bloodchild and Other Stories; Braiding Sweetgrass; The Call of the Wild; The Citadel of Fear; Cosmos; Dark Lord of Derkholm; The Ghost Bride; The God of Small Things; Gorillas in the Mist; Flatland; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Howl's Moving Castle; In the Eye of the Sun; Jane Eyre; The Martian; The Mermaid, The Witch, and The Sea; Michigan Chillers Series; The One; Robocalpyse; The Signature of All Things; Silent Spring; The Tale of Peter Rabbit; Watership Down; Where the Red Fern Grows; A Wrinkle in Time; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

_Films

Air Bud; All Dogs Go to Heaven; Atlantis: The Lost Empire; The Blues Brothers; Cool Runnings; Elf; A Goofy Movie; The Emperor's New Groove; Homeward Bound; Ice Age: The Meltdown; The Iron Giant; Kung Fu Panda; Lilo and Stitch; The Martian; Meet the Robinsons; Moonlight; Moonrise Kingdom; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Perfect Blue; The Place Beyond the Pines; The Prince of Egypt; Princess Mononoke; Ruby Sparks; Stuart Little; Star Wars: A New Hope; When Harry Met Sally; The Wild Robot

_{Musicals and Operas}

Beau; Beauty and the Beast; Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk; Cats; Falsettos; Fame; Hadestown; Hair; In the Heights; Into the Woods; Maybe Happy Ending; The Pirates of Penzance; Spamalot; Sunday in the Park with George; Urinetown; Waitress

_Musicians

Al Jarreau, Amour Plastique, Aretha Franklin, Beck, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Tyler, Brahm Wenger, Camille Saint-Saëns, Clint Mansell, Danny Elfman, David Bowie, Eladia Blazquez, Else Marie Pade, Erik Satie, Flo Rida, Galt MacDermot, Green Day, Heather Christens, James Newton Howard, Jenni Vartiainen, Joan Armatrading, John Williams, Julian Scanlan, Kris Bowers, Manuel Ponce, Marc Blitzstein, Meg Okura, Miki Matsubara, Meiko Nakahara, Michael Gore, Michael Kamen, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Ray Charles, Simple Plan, Stephen Schwartz, Teshima Aoi, The Five Du-Tones, The Rolling Stones, Thomas Newman, Tom Lehrer, Tôn-Thât Tiêt, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Trombone Shorty, Willy Nelson, Yurie Kokubu