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Genre-fluid, theatrical, and deeply melodic, the music of Greta Gertler Gold moves freely between indie rock, orchestral pop and musical theatre. A triple citizen of New York City, Australia and Europe, Greta brings an irreverent, feminist sensibility to music, pairing lush orchestration and infectious songwriting with an appetite for the strange and unexpected.

Her work in musical theatre has been particularly expansive. With playwright Hilary Bell, Greta composed and co-orchestrated Picnic at Hanging Rock, a musical adaptation of Joan Lindsay’s iconic Australian novel. The work was developed at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney and in New York, including a 29-hour reading at Open Jar Studios and a developmental presentation at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater. Its subsequent Off-Broadway production was followed by the release of an Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording (Center Stage Records) in May 2026. The musical has also been presented in concert at Lincoln Center. The work’s haunting score brings together mystery, coming-of-age, Australian cultural memory and a newly foregrounded First Nations perspective.

Greta is a Yaddo Fellow, a recipient of a Café Royal Cultural Foundation Music Grant and a finalist for both the Jonathan Larson Grant and the New York City Women’s Fund. Her musicals have been developed through Ars Nova’s Uncharted program, the Polyphone Festival, Ucross Foundation, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Space at Ryder Farm, New Musicals Australia, The Orchard Project and The Tank, with productions and performances at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and Lincoln Center. She has received Creative Australia and Create NSW grants for her music and theatre projects and is currently developing new musicals with Stew, Susan Bernfield and independently with her original musical Gilda Stone.

Additional highlights include her 2023 Lincoln Center debut with Characters, a concert bringing together her orchestral pop music with performers from the musical theater, jazz, and contemporary music worlds; the psychedelic rock musical The Red Tree, created with Hilary Bell and presented at Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne, and the National Theatre of Parramatta; and Triplight, her indie-rock musical with playwright Alexandra Collier, which was developed through residencies at Ucross, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and Space at Ryder Farm before a concert production at Joe’s Pub. Greta also co-penned the multi-platinum Australian hits “Blow Up the Pokies” and “Charlie #3,” performed by The Whitlams, and leads the orchestral pop band The Universal Thump with her husband, drummer and producer Adam Gold.

Born in Boston and raised in Sydney, Greta has been based in New York City since 1999. She has performed and recorded throughout the United States, Australia, and Europe, both as a solo artist and with Peccadillo, The Extroverts and The Universal Thump. Her recordings have been featured by NPR and praised by The New Yorker for Greta’s “spacious voice” and “welcome weakness for lushly orchestrated pop.