Dan Martin (Composer) and Michael Biello (Lyricist) have collaborated for over 25 years, creating a unique body of critically and popularly acclaimed work in musical theater.

Martin & Biello's work has enjoyed success in Chicago, where Bailiwick's production of Breathe ran for 10 weeks and won the 1999 After Dark Award for Outstanding New Work. In 2000, Q – the Songs of Martin & Biello enjoyed a 9 week Chicago run.

Recent productions include Breathe at SNAP! Productions in Omaha (March 2003 – 8 TAG Award Nominations), and Q at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival (September 2002 – Winner of Philadelphia Weekly's annual theater award for Best Original Music).

Their musical theater work has also been presented in New York at American Opera Projects, New Dramatists, Musical Theater Works, HERE, the TWEED Festival, BAX, and PS 122, among others, in Miami at City Theatre, in Washington DC at DCAC, in Provincetown MA at the UU Church, and in San Francisco at the People's Theater Coalition.

Martin & Biello's songs have been widely performed - from LaMama to Lincoln Center, on ABC, PBS, and on a variety of recordings. Selected highlights include: a performance of their song Table 3 in June 2001 by Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba at New York's Merkin Concert Hall as part of a concert featuring the work of 13 new Broadway musical theater writers; a 2000 GLAMA nomination for Best Theater Song (You Do Not Know Me); a performance of their anthem What We Believe is Right at the 1993 March On Washington for an audience of 300,000 people; The Dance, a 1992 film version of which has been screened worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival, New York's Museum of Modern Art, and at Gay/Lesbian Film Festivals in Tokyo, Cairo, Sydney, Sao Paulo and Rome; a nomination for San Francisco's 1986 Cable Car Award for Outstanding Club Recording (Clones in Love); and an award for the Best Short at the 1985 San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival for their music video of Clones in Love.

Additional career highlights include their dance/theater/music pieces of the late 1970s and early 1980s Two Men Dancing and How I Spent My Summer Vacation; 1984's musical X-posed; and a series of innovative performance art musicals in the early and mid 1990's including Homo Love Song and Human Being.

Recordings of Martin & Biello's songs include Tom Bogdan's GLAMA nominated version of You Do Not Know Me on his L'Amour Blue CD (Sweet Boy Records, 1999) and Lay Your Burden Down, recorded with the Lavender Light Gospel Choir on the landmark compilation CD A Love Worth Fighting For, A Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Singers and Songwriters (Streeter Music, 1995). Martin and Biello's Human Being album (1992) was honored with a 2001 Outmusic Award for Outstanding Legacy Recording.

Martin and Biello live and work in Philadelphia and in New York, where they are members of The Dramatists Guild and the BMI/Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theater Workshop.