David
Rhymer
The Maestro
David Rhymer was an OYR collaborator for many years, composing music and songs from some of the company's most iconic productions.
David Rhymer was a multi-award winning writer and composer and frequent collaborator with One Yellow Rabbit. His work - a combo of cabaret, salon and art-song - toured internationally to critical and popular acclaim.
OYR shows include Mata Hari In 8 Bullets (which premiered off-Broadway in 2013,) Songs From Nightingale Alley, Why Freud Fainted, Wreck Beach and Something Wicked This Way Comes! With long time associate poet/playwright Blake Brooker, he created the impressionistic oratorio on the Beat Generation, Dream Machine, and the notorious Ilsa Queen Of The Nazi Love Camp which toured Canada, the UK and Australia and was made into a feature movie.
In 2007 he was honoured with the Greg Bond Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre in Calgary
