Michael Patrick Walker

Michael Patrick Walker is a composer, lyricist, writer, and musician. Life Walker was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. He lived in Pittsburgh for several years while earning his bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and then moved to New York City, where he currently resides. He played piano and keyboards and/or conducted for various theatrical Broadway, Off-Broadway, and touring productions including Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, Once Upon A Mattress (2024 Revival), Some Like It Hot, Frozen, Aladdin, If/Then, Avenue Q (conductor), the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Tin Pan Alley Rag (music director/arranger), Wicked, The Lion King, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and tick, tick… BOOM! (conductor). Work as composer/lyricist Walker, with fellow composer/lyricist Gary Adler and book writer Kevin Del Aguila, wrote and created the Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, which won the 2005 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. Additionally, the show was nominated for seven Drama Desk Awards (including two each for Walker and Adler for Best Music and for Best Lyrics) and four Lucille Lortel Awards including Be