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Jason Robert Brown
JASON ROBERT BROWN is the composer and lyricist of the musical, "The Last Five Years," which was cited as one of Time Magazine's 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. The original cast recording is available on Sh-K-Boom Records. Jason won a 1999 Tony Award for his score to "Parade", a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in December 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critic's Circle Awards for Best New Musical. "Parade" was also presented in Atlanta and on national tour in 2000, which Jason conducted. Jason's first musical, "Songs for a New World," a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in the fall of 1995, and has since been seen in more than one hundred productions around North America and the United Kingdom. Both shows were recorded for RCA Victor. Jason's scores are published by Hal Leonard Music. Jason is the winner of the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics. Jason is also writing a dance-musical, "The Moneyman." For his work on "Moneyman" and "New World," Jason was awarded the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason's songs, including the cabaret standard "Stars and the Moon" have been performed and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Donna Murphy, Linzi Hateley, Jon Hendricks and many others. Jason is also the composer of the incidental music for David Marshall Grant's "Current Events," David Lindsay-Abaire's "Fuddy Meers" and "Kimberly Akimbo," Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery," and the Irish Repertory Theater's production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Jason is honored to be an Artist-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He is currently at work on a solo album.

As a conductor and arranger, Jason's recent New York credits include Oliver Goldstick's play, "Dinah Was," directed by David Petrarca, at the Gramercy Theatre; and William Finn's "A New Brain," directed by Graciela Daniele, at Lincoln Center Theater. Jason was the musical director of the pop vocal group, The Tonics, with whom he performed at the 1992 tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall (recorded by RCA Victor); he was the conductor and orchestrator of Yoko Ono's musical, "New York Rock," at the WPA Theatre (on Capitol Records); and he orchestrated Andrew Lippa's "john and jen," Off-Broadway at Lamb's Theatre (Varese Sarabande). In 1994, Jason was the conductor and arranger of Michael John LaChiusa's "The Petrified Prince," directed by Harold Prince, at the Public Theatre. Additionally, Jason served as the orchestrator and arranger of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams's score for a proposed musical of "Star Wars." Jason also took over as musical director for the Off-Broadway hit "When Pigs Fly." Jason has conducted and created arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, Tovah Feldshuh, and Laurie Beechman, among many others.

Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He now lives in New York City. Jason is a member of the Dramatist's Guild.

Birthdate: 6/20/70, Tarrytown, NY
Education: Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY (incomplete course of study)
Awards:
Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre, 1996
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Music in a Musical, "Parade," 1999
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Musical (with Alfred Uhry), "Parade" 1999
Antoinette Perry Award, Outstanding Music and Lyrics Written for the Theatre, "Parade," 1999
Drama Critics' Circle Award, Outstanding Musical (with Alfred Uhry), "Parade"
Millennium Arts Award, New York University, 1999
Martin E. Segal Award, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 2000
ASCAPlus Award, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000
Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricists, 2002
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Music in a Musical, "The Last Five Years," 2002
Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lyrics in a Musical, "The Last Five Years," 2002
Artist-in-Residence, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 2001-

Publication: "The Last Five Years," music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Recording: Sh-K-Boom Records 4001-2 (2002)
Print: Hal Leonard Publishing Corp. (in preparation, summer 2002)
"Songs for a New World," music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Recording: Original Cast Recording, RCA Victor 09026-68631-2 (1996)
Print: Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.
"Parade," music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Recording: Original Cast Recording, RCA Victor 09026-63378-2 (1999)
Print: Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.
"Stars and the Moon" and "You Don't Know This Man," music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Recording: Audra McDonald, "Way Back to Paradise," Nonesuch 79482-2 (1998)
Print: Hal Leonard Publishing Corp.
Teaching Credits: Guest professor, Spring 2002, Emerson College, Boston, MA; Masterclasses at University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; Pebblebrook High School for the Performing Arts, Marietta, GA; Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY; Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA; Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Clarion University, Clarion, PA; University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; Yale University, New Haven, CT; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH; University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Emerson College, Boston, MA; Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA; Adjunct Professor at New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL, 1989-90.

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