Mindi Dickstein
MINDI DICKSTEIN wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical Little Women, which played the Virginia Theater in 2004-2005 and toured the US in 2006. Current projects include: lyrics for a musical based on Snow In August by Pete Hamill, with music by Peter Melnick and book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; and lyrics for a musical based on the movie Benny and Joon, with music by Nolan Gasser. Recent projects include: book and lyrics for Trip, an original musical commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, with long-time collaborator Dan Messé; and book for Toy Story - The Musical, with songs by Groovelily, for Disney Creative Entertainment. Other produced work includes: several musicals for the nationally acclaimed Theatreworks USA; book and lyrics for Beasts and Saints, a musical comedy (Boston Music Theater Project, ASCAP Workshop, MTW's Fresh Voices), Notes Across A Small Pond (The Bridewell Theater, London), The Falling Man, an opera in 13 minutes (Cucaracha Theater), and The Magic Cookie, a ten-minute musical (New York Theater Workshop). Plays include The Existential Gourmet, a tragicomedy (The Women's Project) and Guadeloupe, a farce (Westbeth Theater Center). Her songs have been performed widely, most notably as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook ("Hear and Now: Contemporary Lyricists”) and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Awards and honors include: Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, ASCAP Bernice Cohen Award, Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence in Musical Theater, and a PEN International New Playwright Award (selected by Wendy Wasserstein). She received her MFA from New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where she was an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow and where she now serves on the faculty. Little Women is available through Music Theater International and through Cherry Lane Music/BMG; the original Broadway cast album, released by Ghostlight Records, is available from Amazon.com and other music retailers. Bio as of November, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient - 2001 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)