Graduate Musical Theatre Writing

Biography

Mindi Dickstein wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical Little Women,  which opened at the VirginiaTheater on January 23, 2005 and completed it's first national tour of theUS in August 2006.  She is currently writing book and lyrics for Strange Vacation, an original muisical commissioned by Playwrights Horizons inNew York.  Recent honors include a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award and a Second Stage Theater Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence in Musical Theater.  Her songs were included inLincolnCenter's American Songbook as part of "Hear and Now: Contemporary Lyricists."  She has written several musicals for TheatreworksUSA, including The Mystery of King Tut, an original musical, which will be revived for a national tour in the 2007-2008 season.  Other plays and musicals include: Beasts and Saints (ASCAP Bernice Cohen Award), performed widely, including workshops at the Boston Music Theater Project, ASCAP Workshop, and MTW's Fresh Voices; The Happiness of Fish, a one act musical produced by the Bridewell Theater, London; The Existential Gourmet (1999 Jane Chambers Award), a tragicomedy; Guadeloupe, a farce (Westbeth Theater Center); The Falling Man, an opera in 13 minutes (Cucaracha Theater); Education Doesn't Make You Smarter, two one act plays (Women's Interart Theater); and The Magic Cookie, a ten-minute musical (New York Theater Workshop). She has received playwriting fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and has been honored by Wendy Wasserstein/PEN International. She received her MFA fromNew YorkUniversity's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where she was an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow.