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Daniel Henri Emond is a Queens-based singer, composer for Musical Theatre, and educator who prefers to write in 1st person. I’ve developed work at Polyphone Festival at University of the Arts, Yaddo, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Corkscrew Festival, NYU, the Melville bi-centennial Conference, and Nantucket Theatre Workshop, and was a 2021 and 2022 Jonathan Larson Finalist. Other composing credits include the multi-lingual score to the International Production of Neil Bartlett’s The Plague at Hong Kong Arts Festival 2021, and DAWN, a new Folk Musical, at Signature. My newest show is a dream musical about Freud and Jung I’m writing with Kate Douglas (Good Hart 2023, Culture Lab Emergence Res, Yaddo). I tour as a banjoist, and write down every dream I can remember. I’ve worked or performed with Sam Bush, Ingrid Michaelson, Dave Malloy, Nathaniel Philbrick, Grace McLean, Larry Cordle, Sam Lee, and others. http://www.danielsswelltunes.com
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books
awards
A version of the last chapter, “Opposite the Water, 2031″, won the Science Fiction Short Stories Award of the daily newspaper Yediot Achronot, 1997.
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Ice is a destructive journey of insanity and love taking place in different places around the world between the years 1970 and 2031 – the lifetime of the protagonist, Ice. It is a book about obsessive and destructive love, which isn’t altered by geographical borders, time or rationalizations. It is love that is at times blissful, but is always on the verge of horror.
Ice is a romantic psychopath, an exposed and obtuse person, a tough and difficult child and a passionate adult. He is passive-aggressive, as cruel as he is compassionate, and he loves as powerfully as he hates. Ice lives in a world that is alienated and violent, and the characters surrounding him seem detached and frustrated as himself.
The novel is narrated in an unconventional way, using varied formats of storytelling and flowing along with its own internal logic and not in an obvious chronological order. Each chapter finds the protagonist at a different stage in his life and stands almost independently from the other chapter