ADAM GWON (Composer/Lyricist of Ordinary
Days) is the recipient of the Kleban, Ebb and Loewe awards for excellence
in musical theater writing. Adam's
musical Ordinary Days premiered in
NYC with a sold-out run at the Roundabout Theatre Company (Ghostlight Records). His new musical The Boy Detective Fails received its premiere in 2011 at the
Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia.
Other works include Bernice Bobs
Her Hair, Cloudlands, Lulu, Some Place Like Home and Ethan Frome. Other
honors: ASCAP Harold Adamson award, the
MAC John Wallowitch award and a MAC Award nomination for best song. Commissions:
Signature Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Broadway Across America, and
the EST/Sloan Project. Adam has been a
MacDowell Colony fellow, a musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and
an artist-in-residence at the Weston Playhouse.
He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a member of
ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
Adam Gwon