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STEVEN LEVENSON (Book) is a Tony Award- winning playwright, screenwriter, and television writer and producer. His plays include If I Forget, Core Values, Seven Minutes in Heaven, and The Language of Trees. He co-created and executive produced the FX series “Fosse/Verdon,” which was nominated for seventeen Emmy Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, as well as for Critics’ Choice Association and Producers Guild Awards, and won the Writers Guild Award and an AFI Award for Outstanding Series. Other honors include the OBIE Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. Film projects include the adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Tick, TickBoom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for Netflix. He is a graduate of Brown University.
BENJ PASEK & JUSTIN PAUL (Music and Lyrics). Oscar, Grammy, Tony, and Olivier Award-winning songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul are best known for their work on Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, and The Greatest Showman. Their accompanying albums for each project have appeared in the top 10 of the Billboard , the latter of which certified Platinum in over a dozen countries, including Triple Platinum in the US, New Zealand, Ch
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Faculty & Staff
Rosenthal Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor
Writing / Acting / Directing
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Bio
B.F.A. University of Florida
M.F.A. University of Virginia
Certificate of Playwriting, Harvard University
Ken Jones earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting/Directing from the University of Florida, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from the University of Virginia and continued on to graduate in Playwriting from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
Jones has had 27 produced with 10 published, 9 musicals, 4 CD’s of original soundtrack scores and listings in several anthologies and monologue books. Jones began his playwriting career with the Off -Broadway production of his play, A RED EAGLE FALLING, produced at the Writer’s Theatre in New York City by the Project III Ensemble. His play, DARKSIDE, was chosen as TIME Magazine’s Critic Choice and was also recognized as one of the Best Plays of the ’s.
Jones was a member of the prestigious Warner Bros. Television Writer’s Workshop and went on to serve as the Head of Development for Light Point Entertainment at Disney/MGM Studios for the development and creation of content for animation, television and film.
As a performer, Jones performed in the works