Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

LYNN AHRENS
BOOK AND LYRICS
BIOGRAPHY
LYNN AHRENS is a lyricist, librettist and author. For Broadway, she wrote the lyrics for Ragtime, winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Score, and receiving two Grammy nominations. Additionally for Broadway, she wrote lyrics for My Favorite Year and Chita Rivera:The Dancer’s Life, and both book and lyrics for Once On This Island (two Tony nominations), Seussical (Grammy nomination) and A Christmas Carol (ten years at Madison Square Garden). Off-Broadway: Book and lyrics for The Glorious Ones, Dessa Rose, and lyrics for A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical), all produced by Lincoln Center Theater; book and lyrics for Lucky Stiff (Playwrights Horizons). Feature film: She received two Academy Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations for the score of Anastasia(Twentieth Century Fox); lyrics for Camp (IFC Films), After the Storm and others. Television: She is a mainstay songwriter/singer for the renowned animated series, Schoolhouse Rock; she wrote the musical teleplay for A Christmas Carol (Hallmark Entertainment/NBC). Created and produced many network shows. Publishing: Her short stories and essays have been nominated for Best American Essays and the Pushcart Anthology. Honors: Winner of the Tony, Emmy, London’s Olivier, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Gold Record; nominated for two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, three Grammys and four Emmys. She serves on the Dramatists Guild Council of America and co-chairs the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for Emerging Writers. 2008 marked her twenty-fifth year of collaboration with composer Stephen Flaherty.

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STEPHEN FLAHERTY
MUSIC
BIOGRAPHY
STEPHEN FLAHERTY writes music for theater, film, recordings and the concert stage. He is perhaps best known as the composer of the Broadway musicals Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy and Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award for London’s Best Musical), and also contributed music to Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (original songs) and Neil Simon’s Proposals (incidental music). He has also written four musicals produced at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Rose (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations), A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, Drama Desk nomination) and My Favorite Year. Other theater scores include Lucky Stiff and Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein (Chicago’s Jefferson Award for Best New Musical). Film credits include Anastasia (Academy Award nominations for Best Score and Best Song, two Golden Globe nominations and a gold record for its soundtrack), Bartok the Magnificent (original score and songs) and the upcoming After The Storm. Concert work includes commissions from the Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. “The Ahrens and Flaherty Songbook,” a print anthology, is available through Alfred Music. His songs have been recorded by Aaliyah, Johnny Mathis, Richard Marx and Donna Lewis, Renee Fleming and Bryn Terfel, Donny Osmond, Thalia and Deana Carter, among others. Mr. Flaherty serves on the Dramatists Guild Council, where he co-chairs the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for emerging writers with Lynn Ahrens, his longtime writing partner.

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