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Jason Robert Brown |
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JASON ROBERT BROWN has written three musicals for the New York stage: Songs for a New World (1995), which has since been produced more than 200 times around the world; Parade (1998), in collaboration with Alfred Uhry and Harold Prince, for which Mr. Brown received the Tony Award for Best Score; and The Last Five Years (2002), winner of Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics (original cast recordings on RCA Victor and Sh-K-Boom Records). Mr. Brown has also received the Kleban Award and the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Award. As a conductor and arranger, Mr. Brown's credits include Dinah Was, A New Brain, john and jen and Yoko Ono's New York Rock. His songs including the cabaret standard "Stars and the Moon," have been performed and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Renee Fleming, Jon Hendricks and many others. Lauren Kennedy's album Songs of Jason Robert Brown is available on PS Classics. Mr. Brown is also represented this season with the incidental music to David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo at Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Brown's Band, The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, is available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. Mr. Brown is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Bio as of October, 2006.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Production: Urban Cowboy - April, 2003
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2003
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
Website:
www.jasonrobertbrown.com
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