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Robert Lopez |
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ROBERT LOPEZ is creator, composer and lyricist of the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Jeff Marx. Avenue Q won the 2004 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, and a Grammy nomination for its Original Cast Album. Avenue Q opened on Broadway July 31, 2003 at the John Golden Theater, with additional productions in Las Vegas and London's West End. Lopez and Marx met in the famed BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Their very first project together, a spec Muppet movie, Kermit, Prince of Denmark, which was very loosely based on Hamlet, won them (as part of a tie) part of the $150,000 Kleban Award. They are currently working on an original movie musical for Universal Pictures, and a stage musical in collaboration with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of South Park. Robert Lopez's musical version of Finding Nemo written in collaboration with his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, will open at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom Park in November 2006. He also collaborated with his brother, the NYC musician & poet Billy Lopez, on several episodes of Nickelodeon's hit series, The Wonder Pets. Lopez grew up in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. He attended Hunter College High School and received a B.A. in English from Yale University. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their new daughter Katie (born March 25, 2005).
Bio as of September, 2006.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Production: Avenue Q - September, 2003
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2004
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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