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ADAM GWON

About the Artist

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Adam Gwon is a composer and lyricist, and recipient of the 2008 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater songwriting.  His musical Ordinary Days recently enjoyed a sold-out run at the Finborough Theatre in London, after making its world premiere at Pennsylvania Centre Stage and appearing in the 2008 NAMT Festival of New Musicals and the 2008 ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop.  His other musicals include Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with librettist Julia Jordan) and Ethan Frome.  He is currently working on an original musical with playwright Sarah Hammond, commissioned by Broadway Across America, and an adaptation of Joe Meno’s “The Boy Detective Fails,” commissioned by Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, as part of its American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation.  Adam was a 2006-07 musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Past Performances

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February 5, 2009

Composer and lyricist Adam Gwon, recipient of the 2008 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater songwriting, presents work with vocalists Stanley Bahorek and Leah Horowitz. Part of the Kennedy Center’s season-long initiative Broadway: The Third Generation, which celebrates today’s Broadway composers.

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