Directing: August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the world premiere of Redwood (Portland Center Stage) Larry Owens' Sondhemia (Carnegie Hall) Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera) School Girls Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Sex with Strangers, A Raisin in the Sun (KCRep) the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie Theatre) dwb: driving while black (Lawrence Arts Center, Baruch Performing Arts Center) 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). They were previously the artistic associate/resident director at KCRep. His music (including songs cut from his shows) is archived in the Library of Congress.Ĭhip is a director and producer, currently in the role of associate artistic director at Portland Center Stage. Jonathan died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, 10 days before his 36th birthday. Rent, his rock opera based on La Bohème, had its world premiere on February 13, 1996, at New York Theatre Workshop.

He conceived, directed, and wrote four original songs for 'Away We Go!,' a musical video for children. Other film scores include work for Rolling Stone’s magazine publisher Jann Wenner. In addition to scoring and song writing for Sesame Street, he created music for a number of children's book-cassettes, including Steven Spielberg's An American Tail and Land Before Time. BOOM! at Second Stage Theatre, The Village Gate, and New York Theatre Workshop. Larson performed his rock monologue tick, tick. Morgan Saves the Nation, which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. He composed the score for the musical J.P. In 1988, he won the Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical Superbia, which was staged at Playwrights Horizon. In 1989, he was granted the Stephen Sondheim Award from American Music Theatre Festival, where he contributed to the musical Sitting on the Edge of the Future. He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for Rent and twice received The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award. Jonathan received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rent. Stitcher Natalie Scott, Stitcher Niko Suits, The People's Party: BIPOC Affinity Nightsĭresser Miranda Nolten, Assistant Wig Artisan Melinda Roddy,.

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