Steven Levenson's plays include The Unavoidable Disappearance Of
Tom Durnin (Roundabout Theatre Company, Outer Critics Circle John
Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award), Core Values (Ars Nova, Drama
Desk Nomination for Outstanding Play), The Language of Trees
(Roundabout), Seven Minutes In Heaven (Colt Coeur; Emerging America
Festival/Huntington Theater Company), and the book for Dear Evan
Hansen, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Second
Stage, OBIE Award for Musical Theatre, Outer Critics Circle Awards
for Best Book and Best Off-Broadway Musical, Drama League
Nomination for Best Musical; Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award for
Outstanding Musical). His play, If I Forget, will premiere at
Roundabout in Spring, 2017. His plays are published by Dramatists
Play Service and Playscripts. A graduate of Brown University and
former Artist in Residence at Ars Nova, he has received new play
commissions from Roundabout, Lincoln Center, MCC, and Ars Nova.
Currently a writer and producer on Showtime's Masters Of Sex, he is
a founding member of Colt Coeur and an alumnus of MCC's Playwrights
Coalition and Ars Nova's Play Group.
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul's musical Dogfight had its world premiere
at Second Stage Theatre, where it won the Lortel Award for Best New
Musical. Theater credits include A Christmas Story, The Musical on
Broadway, which received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle
nominations for Outstanding New Broadway Musical; James and the
Giant Peach; Edges. TV credits include "Smash," "Sesame Street,"
"Johnny and the Sprites." Pasek and Paul created the song
"Unlimited" for Old Navy's 2014 back-to-school campaign, which
earned them a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Upcoming film projects
include La La Land (Lionsgate); The Greatest Showman (FOX); Trolls
(Dreamworks Animation); Medusa (Sony Pictures Animation); Tom and
Jerry Return to Oz (Warner Bros Animation). Honors: Richard Rodgers
Award for Musical Theatre (American Academy of Arts and Letters),
ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, Jonathan Larson Award.
Both are B.F.A. Musical Theatre graduates of the University of
Michigan and members of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
'A gorgeous new musical. It should appeal to just about anyone who
has ever felt, at some point in life, that he or she was trapped
"on the outside looking in," as one lyric has it. Which is just
about everybody with a beating heart.'
*New York Times*
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