Jason Robert Brown 
Composer 

JASON ROBERT BROWN is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an three-time Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of his generation, including last season’s highly-praised THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, the recently revived THE LAST 5 YEARS, his debut song cycle SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, and the seminal PARADE, for which he won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score.  

Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances.  The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical.” 

His major musicals as composer and lyricist include: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, adapted by Marsha Norman from the blockbuster novel, and starring Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale; 13, written with Robert Horn and Dan Elish, which began its life in Los Angeles in 2007 and opened on Broadway in 2008 (and was subsequently directed by the composer for its West End premiere in 2012); THE LAST 5 YEARS, which was cited as one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics (and was subsequently directed by the composer in its record-breaking Off-Broadway run at Second Stage Theatre in 2013); PARADE, written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best New Musical, as well as garnering Jason the Tony Award for Original Score; and SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, which played Off-Broadway in 1995, and has since been seen in hundreds of productions around the world.  HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, based on Andrew Bergman’s film, opens on Broadway this winter following a triumphant production at Paper Mill Playhouse last fall.  A film version of THE LAST 5 YEARS will be released later this year, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan and directed by Richard LaGravenese. PARADE was also the subject of a major revival directed by Rob Ashford, first at London’s Donmar Warehouse and then at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and will be performed in concert at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall in February 2015 with a full orchestra conducted by the composer. His orchestral adaptation of E.B. White’s novel THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN premiered at the Kennedy Center with John Lithgow and the National Symphony Orchestra, and the CD was released on PS Classics.  He has also contributed music to “Sesame Street” and “The Wonder Pets.”  Future projects include an untitled new piece created with Claudia Shear and Casey Nicholaw, a collaboration with Marsha Norman and Rob Ashford, and a new solo album for release in 2015.  

As a soloist or with his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, Jason has performed sold-out concerts around the world.  His first solo album, WEARING SOMEONE ELSES CLOTHES, was named one of Amazon.com’s best of 2005, and is available from Sh-K-Boom Records.  His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy, SONGS OF JASON ROBERT BROWN, is available on PS Classics.  Jason was on the faculty of the USC School of Dramatic Arts for nine years, and was the Blodgett Artist-In-Residence at Harvard University in 2014. 

Jason lives with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their daughters in New York City.  Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 & 47.  Visit him on the web at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.