Mindi Dickstein wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical Little Women, which opened at the Virginia Theater on January 23, 2005. Recent honors include a 2001 Jonathan Larson Foundation Award and a 2000 Second Stage Theater Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence in Musical Theater. Her songs were included in Lincoln Center's Spring 2002 American Songbook as part of "Hear and Now: Contemporary Lyricists." Other current projects include a new musical, commissioned by Playwrights Horizons in New York, and The Mystery of King Tut, an original musical commissioned by Theatreworks USA (currently touring nationally). Other plays and musicals include: Beasts and Saints, performed 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 in November 2002; several musicals for Theatreworks USA including Black Beauty and Lyle Lyle Crocodile; The Existential Gourmet (1999 Jane Chambers Award); 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, received a 1998 ASCAP Bernice Cohen Award, and has been honored by Wendy Wasserstein/PEN International. She received her MFA from New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where she was an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow.
