ADAM GWON

Adam Gwon’s musicals include Ordinary Days (Roundabout Theatre, London’s West End), The Boy Detective Fails (with Joe Meno, Signature Theatre), Cloudlands (with Octavio Solis, South Coast Repertory), and Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with Julia Jordan).  His songs have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, and more, by such luminaries as Audra McDonald and Kelli O’Hara.  Adam’s honors include the Kleban, Ebb, and Loewe awards for excellence in musical theater writing, the ASCAP Harold Adamson Award, the MAC John Wallowitch Award, and commissions from South Coast Repertory, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre (Arlington), Broadway Across America, and the EST/Sloan Project.  Recordings: Ordinary Days (Ghostlight Records), Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project (recorded by Brian D’Arcy James).  Fellowships: MacDowell Colony, Dramatists Guild.  Education: NYU/Tisch.  Member: ASCAP, Dramatists Guild. www.adamgwon.com.

Lyric Writing