Dramatists Guild Foundation Names Daniel Lazour as 2024 Stephen Schwartz Award Recipient
The Award recipient is granted $10,000 in unconditional support of their work.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Oct. 29, 2024
Dramatists Guild Foundation has revealed that musical theater composer Daniel Lazour is the 2024 recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Award.
The Stephen Schwartz Award is a pledge to the future of musical theater, given annually to a musical theater writer whose voice is seen as critical to the continued success of the craft. The Award recipient is granted $10,000 in unconditional support of their work.
Lazour’s current project We Live in Cairo, written with his brother Patrick Lazour, recently opened at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW). Additional projects include: Night Side Songs (UTR/PTC/ART 2025), a stage adaptation of the film The Lunchbox, and a movie musical, Challenger: An American Dream. He received a B.A. in music from Columbia University. He plays guitar, piano, and tin whistle and releases music regularly with his brother, Patrick as The Lazours.
The Stephen Schwartz Award debuted in 2019. Past recipients are Benjamin Velez (2023), Heather Christian (2022), Emily Gardner Xu Hall (2021), Khiyon Hursey (2020), and Oliver Houser (2019).
Lazour accepted the award at DGF’s annual Gala, held last night at the historic Ziegfeld Ballroom.
For more information on DGF’s awards for writers or how to support theater writers, visit DGF.org.
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