Elliot Valentine is a composer, lyricist, librettist and dramaturg. He writes musical theater with Mel Hornyak under the artist name Melliot.
Elliot is a current member of Musical Theatre Factory’s Makers Cohort IV. Works include Ghost Story(Live & In Color Top 4 Finalist 2025, Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference Semifinalist, OpenAIR MT Residency 2024), Someone Like Me(Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Finalist 2025), Thy Sinful House(New Roots Residency Finalist 2025), Adamandi (Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference Semifinalist 2023) and The Art of Pleasing Princes. Other credits include an immersive extended reality musical for Musical Theatre Factory’s MTFxR Garage (2025), multimedia musical Alternate Reality Games, and work performed at The Public Theater’s Joe’s Pub and the Green Room 42.
Elliot is currently studying Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and holds a B. A. from Princeton University.
