Dan Mertzlufft

Daniel Mertzlufft is an American musical theatre composer and arranger best known as a creator of Ratatouille the Musical on TikTok. Early life and education Mertzlufft was born in Florida. Because he was a “military baby,” he moved around a lot. He spent a majority of his childhood in Germany, his family then moved to Las Vegas, before settling in Buffalo, New York. He also graduated summa cum laude in 2015 from the State University of New York at Potsdam with double majors in music education and composition. which was commissioned by Tiktok and simultaneously broadcast on TikTok and at a “secret” Broadway theater. Mertzlufft talked with NBC news about the difficulties in ‘preserving the evergreen aspects of making a musical while also being conscious of how quickly trends move’. Kelly McCarthy of Good Morning America called Mertzlufft a “creative genius”. NPR said he “breaks the internet with his TikTok Broadway sendups.” His debut single was called “In My Head.” Mertzlufft’s TikTok video Grocery Story has received over 4.6 million views, BuzzFeed wrote of the latter, “not to oversell this story, but it is epic.” Mertzlufft created a theatrical cover of Louisa Melcher’s New York