- Will Aronson
William Landry Aronson (b. 1981, New Haven, Connecticut) is a contemporary American
composer and writer formusical theater .Background
Will Aronson holds a B.A. in music from
Harvard University . As an undergraduate, Aronson was the composer ofHasty Pudding Theatricals ' 154th production, "Snow Place Like Home" (1), and co-author/lyricist of its 155th production, "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" (2).After graduation from Harvard, Aronson studied Music Theory as a
Fulbright Scholar atUniversität der Künste inBerlin (3).Aronson holds an M.F.A. from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program of the
Tisch School of the Arts atNew York University . While studying at NYU, he received theASCAP Frederick Loewe Scholarship (4) and a 2006Baryshnikov Fellowship (5). In 2007 he was named by theDramatists Guild of America as one of "50 to Watch."Recent work
Aronson recently completed the score for a musical version of the Korean movie "
My Scary Girl " (book and lyrics by Kyoung-ae Kang), scheduled to open in Seoul in 2009. The show was selected for the second Daegu International Musical Festival, and was performed there on July 5-6, 2008 (6). The English language version of the show, with book co-written byMark St. Germain and additional lyrics byWilliam Finn , was selected for the third season of Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab series, to be performed July 10-26, 2008 (7). Aronson is also writing "The Trouble with Doug" with Daniel Maté. The musical, an adaptation ofFranz Kafka 's "The Metamorphosis ", was selected for performance at the Third Annual Festival of New Artists at theGoodspeed Opera House in 2008 (8).Aronson's work also includes music for Sybille Pearson's play "Next", in collaboration with lyricist
William Finn .References
1. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=2541382. http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article.aspx?ref=2713453. http://us.fulbrightonline.org/program_student_us.html?id=3634. http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/foundation/scholarships/loewe.html5. http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/10776. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/05/145_22196.html7. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/116390.html8. http://www.goodspeed.org/news.aspx?id=712&year=2008
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