Tareq Abuissa is a composer, lyricist, and music director. His four stage musicals include Naked (2021) as well as the tech industry satire South of Market: The Musical (2016, 2017), while his scores for the screen include three USC Animation thesis films (2014) and two video interview series with Lincoln Center (2013).

A lifelong cellist and multi-instrumentalist, Abuissa has performed cello Off-Broadway for Marvell Rep's The Dybbuk (2011). While studying Music and Mathematics at Columbia University, he co-composed the 118th Varsity Show, The Corporate Core (2012), and his composition teachers included Fred Lerdahl and Osvaldo Golijov. Abuissa serves as the SCL Awards Administrator for the Society of Composers & Lyricists.

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