LYNN AHRENS and STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Lyrics and Music

have been collaborators since 1983. They won the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Ragtime, and Once On This Island won the 2018 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. They were nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for the score of Twentieth Century Fox’s animated feature film Anastasia, and with Terrence McNally, they also adapted Anastasia for Broadway. Other Broadway credits: Seussical (one of the most produced shows in America), Rocky, My Favorite Year, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, the 2009 revival of Ragtime, Lincoln Center Theater’s A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, and The Glorious Ones. Playwrights Horizon: Lucky Stiff. Upcoming shows include Little Dancer, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, and Knoxville, directed by Frank Galati. Ahrens and Flaherty are four-time Grammy nominees, recipients of the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement, and were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2015. They serve on the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America and founded the DGF Fellows Program for Emerging Writers. ahrensandflaherty.com