Mindi
Dickstein is currently writing Strange
Vacation, a new musical commissioned
by Playwrights Horizons in New York. Other current
work includes The Mystery of King
Tut, an original musical commissioned
by Theatreworks USA, which ends a three-year
national tour this year. Her songs were also
recently included in Lincoln Center's American
Songbook series as part of "Hear and Now:
Contemporary Lyricists." Other work includes:
Beasts and Saints,
performed at the Boston Music Theater Project,
ASCAP Workshop, and MTW's "Fresh Voices";
Notes Across a Small Pond,
produced by the Bridewell Theater, London; and
several musicals for Theatreworks USA. Her work
has been performed at New York Theater Workshop,
The Women's Project, Second Stage, Westbeth
Theater Center, and the Cucaracha Theater. She
has received numerous awards, including the
Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, Second Stage
Theater Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence
in Musical Theater, New York Foundation for
the Arts and Massachusetts Artists Foundation
playwriting fellowships, the Jane Chambers Award,
and the ASCAP Bernice Cohen Award. She received
her MFA from New York University's Graduate
Musical Theater Writing Program, where she was
an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow. |
