Elliot Valentine is a composer, lyricist, librettist and dramaturg. He writes musical theater with Mel Hornyak under the artist name Melliot. He is also a dramaturg, with research interests in speculative fiction, horror, and experimental musical theater.
Works include Ghost Story(Live & In Color Top 4 Finalist 2025, OpenAIR MT Residency 2024), Someone Like Me (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Finalist 2025), Thy Sinful House(New Roots Residency Finalist 2025), Adamandi (Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference Semifinalist 2023) and The Art of Pleasing Princes. Other credits include an immersive extended reality musical for Musical Theatre Factory’s MTFxR Garage (2025), Ring of Keys’ Queering the Gala at The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub (2024), and LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS: a Transmasc Cabaret at the Green Room 42 (2024).
Elliot is currently studying Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and holds a B. A. in English, Theater, Music Theater, and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University.
