Ahrens & Flaherty, Tori Amos, Leonard Bernstein, Bock & Harnick, Jason Robert Brown, John Bucchino, David Bucknam, Craig Carnelia, William Finn, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Billy Joel, Michael John LaChiusa, Alan Menken, Joni Mitchell, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, New York, the little things.
Adam Gwon is a rising musical theater writer named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine. He won the 2008 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater songwriting and has been hailed "an extremely talented composer and lyricist" who "is seriously going places." (The New York Sun, StageSpace.com)
Adam's musical Ordinary Days recently premiered at Pennsylvania Centre Stage, made its UK premiere at the Finborough Theatre in London, and was selected for the 2008 NAMT Festival of New Musicals.
His other shows include Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with librettist Julia Jordan and director Joe Calarco), and Ethan Frome. His work has been seen and developed at Primary Stages, the York Theatre, New Dramatists, NAMT, NYMF, the Johnny Mercer Foundation/American Music Theatre Project (where he was one of 14 songwriters-under-30 chosen from across the country to perform original work), Symphony Space, the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the Flea Theater, and many others.
He's currently at work on commissions from Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (as part of its American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation) and Broadway Across America.
Adam is a 2009 MacDowell Colony fellow and was a 2006-07 musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
This stuff is truly gorgeous. I love it. My favorites are I'll Be Here and Favorite Places There so real and full of emotion. Truly terrific. Is there anywhere that I can get them? Thanks very much, Allie Bloechl
Hey, don't know if you remember me... But congratulations for your show coming to the Uk, especially with having Julie Atherton! Hope to see it! I'm still raving about Ordinary Days! best wishes x
Cait Doyle will be singing Adam Gwon's "Gotta Get Out" (from ORDINARY DAYS) in her cabaret HOT MESS IN MANHATTAN which premieres on 3/21 at Don't Tell Mama.
I loved listening to your songs, you are really talented. Are any of them published? I'm always on the look out for good new repertoire for my students. Keep up the good work.
I got the Cd, THANK YOU so much! I really love it! the music and lyrics are a completely seamless mesh of amazing! :P it's brilliant! (thanks you again!)
Thank you for the add Adam. I am not a big preformer of musicals. but I love your work, it is great. Your songs gives me the same vonderful feeling, I have when I hear John Bucchino
hey, LOVE your new recordings of Ordinary Days, especially I'll be here and gotta get out (from your podcast) is it on general release? I'd love to get it! xxx
