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Musicals: Lyrics: Neurosis: A New Musical
(Off-Broadway, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Finger Lakes Musical
Theatre Festival; SALT Award), several songs with Marvin
Hamlisch (White House, Mr. Hamlisch's Holiday Tour).
Book and Lyrics: Evelyn Shaffer and the Chance of a Lifetime (Samuel
French OOB Festival Winner, City Theatre, Take A Ten Musicals), Taking the
Plunge (Samuel French OOB Festival, New York Musical Theatre Festival,
Davenport Ten-Minute Play Festival),
The Almost In-Laws (City Theatre, Take a Ten Musicals),
The Temptation of Lady Amsterdam (Prospect Theatre Lab), The Rivals (BMI Workshop, Lively Productions), Episcus and Edendus (BMI, Artistic New Directions),
The Discontented Grasshopper (Center Theatre),
Office Space: The Musical (Yale), Songs from
The Princess Bride (BMI), Nero (Yale). Cabarets:
Broadway's Future Songbook Series (Lincoln Center), MuseMatch
and Backstage (54 Below),
Having Our Song (Dramatists Guild Convention),
Our Time (Duplex),
The Panda is Not My Friend (Don't Tell Mama), A Little
New Music (Laurie Beechman Theatre), Blogologues, BMI Workshop Smoker
(BMI), New York Theatre Barn in the D-Lounge, Shin Splints and
Vocal Nodes (Yale). Plays:
Application Pending (Off-Broadway; Broadway World Award, Drama Desk Nomination, Puffin Grant), A Craving for
Travel (Off-Broadway), Diplomatic Relations (Riant Theatre), Apples (Coyote
Arts Festival),
Everaftering (78th Street Theatre Lab, Acting Out), Longsford Park or the
Reluctant Handkerchief (Limbo), Home-Cooked: A Cautionary
Tale (Jimmy's No. 43). Contributor: A Crowded House
(State Theatre of Chicago), Blogologues: Sex, Drugs, and
Interwebs (Theatre Under St. Marks). Resident playwright for Lively
Productions.
Television: Nickelodeon Writing Program
(Semifinalist, top 12 scripts); Warner Brothers Writing
Workshop (Semifinalist, top 5% of scripts).
Essays: "We'll Always Have Disneyland Paris" (Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly), "An Honest Letter from Your I.T. Department" (McSweeney's),
"Wrestling with Masculinity" (Los Angeles Review of Books,
Avidly)
Video games: Jessica Plunkenstein and the
Dusseldorf Conspiracy (New York Times' Best Adventure Game, published in PC Gamer UK), The Judgment of Quintus
(in development).
Awards: Dramatists Guild Musical Theatre
Writing Fellow, Broadway World Award
for Best Off-Broadway Show (Application Pending), Drama
Desk Nomination for Outstanding Solo Show (Application
Pending), Puffin Grant (Application Pending), SALT
Award for Best Original New Production (Neurosis), City
Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting (Evelyn Shaffer
and the Chance of a Lifetime), BMI Foundation Harrington Award for Creative
Excellence), Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting (Two-Time Finalist), Yale Institute for Music Theatre (Two-Time
Finalist), Yale's Jonathan Edwards Arts Prize.
Education: B.S. Computer Science and Theatre Studies,
Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, distinction in
both majors). At Yale, studied comedy writing with Mark
O'Donnell, playwriting with Donald Margulies, and verse with J.
D. McClatchy. Studied improv comedy with the Upright Citizens
Brigade Theatre. Member of the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Lehman
Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Advanced).
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