Graduate Musical Theatre Writing

Education

M.F.A.New York University

Biography

Robert Lee  is a lyricist and librettist whose original musicals include Journey To The West (music by Leon Ko), Heading East (music by Ko) and The Sweet By and By (book and music by Maria V.S. Seigenthaler).His work as a music director includes the CDs Stage 1 and Stage 2 and the premiere cast recording of Heading East (DINK Records). He and Ko received the 2001 Richard Rodgers Development Award for Heading East and an AT&T First Stage grant for musical, Chinese Hell, developed with producer Margo Lion and San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater. Most recently, he and Ko have been commissioned by East of Doheny to create a musical stage adaptation of Jean Kerr’s Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. Robert is an alumnus of Princeton University and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts (where he currently serves on the faculty) and is an Artistic Associate at Theatre Royal Stratford East in London, where he leads its Musical Theatre Writing Workshop with composer Fred Carl. The Workshop is the subject of the film Rappin’ At the Royal (Blast Films, 2005).