MASI ASARE is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. Shows include: THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (book/music/lyrics; Theatre Royal Stratford East commission, Eugene O’Neill Center); a new musical about a story of racial passing (book/music/lyrics) commissioned by Barbara Whitman/Grove Entertainment; the new musical adaptation of Mira Nair’s film MONSOON WEDDING (lyrics); a one-act play about Ms. Marvel MIRROR OF MOST VALUE (Marvel/Samuel French); a new musical commissioned by Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre/Toulmin Foundation; and spy musical SYMPATHY JONES (music/lyrics/concept; NYMF; Playscripts). A past Dramatists Guild Fellow, Masi won the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for a woman composer of musicals, both the Holof Lyricist Award and the Haupt Composition Prize from the O’Neill Center, an Emerging Artist Grant from the Theater Hall of Fame, and the Stacey Mindich “Go Write A Musical” Lilly Award. An advisory board member for MAESTRA, she holds degrees from Harvard and NYU Tisch and is on the Theatre department faculty at Northwestern University.
Masi AsareParadise Square
Masi AsareParadise Square
Masi AsareParadise Square
Masi Asare has been nominated for the following awards: Outstanding Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Paradise Square; Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre at the Tony Awards for Paradise Square; and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre at the Tony Awards for Paradise Square.
Masi Asare has written 1 shows including Monsoon Wedding (Lyrics).
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