Biography

Author, composer and director, educated at Northwestern University (BA, cum laude, and MA, summa cum laude), and at the Cleveland School of Art and the Mannes School of Music. He was an assistant director of the Broadway musicals "Gypsy" and "West Side Story", and he also directed other Broadway and off-Broadway musicals and plays, and films and television shows. He wrote the Broadway stage score for "A Time for Singing", co-wrote its libretto, and directed it. Joining ASCAP in 1965, his chief musical collaborator was John Morris.
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Has served as the Dean of Drama at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he is currently directing the all-school production of West Side Story.