Farrah Rotman (b. 1997) is a composer, lyricist, pianist, writer, and orchestrator based in Brooklyn.

Farrah was the 2020 recipient of Yale University’s highest arts award, the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, as well as Yale’s Signature Theatre Fellowship, Bach Society Music Prize and Abraham Beekman Cox Prize. She has won the Tribeca New Music Competition, the Brian Israel Prize at the Syracuse Society for New Music, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester Composer Competition, and the Juventas New Music Ensemble Call for Scores. She was twice a finalist for the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the Charles Ives Concert Series.

As an aerialist, Farrah has regularly performed at venues including House of Yes, The Stranger, and The Slipper Room. She specializes in aerial rope, silks, and straps. She teaches an Intro to Rope class on Saturdays at Om Factory and is available for private lessons and workshops.

As a music director, Farrah has worked on several productions at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University including “The Commedia Project” (dir. Christopher Bayes) and “Bulgaria! Revolt!” She worked as a music assistant on the pre-Broadway production of Frozen the Musical. She was the co-music director of the 2020 Yale Whiffenpoofs and the music director of the 2017 Yale Spizzwinks.

Farrah holds a B.A. in Music & Theatre Studies with honors from Yale University; she graduated from the Juilliard Pre-College division with a major in composition.