Adam Gwon is a rising musical theater writer named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine. He won the 2008 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater songwriting and has been hailed "an extremely talented composer and lyricist" who "is seriously going places." (The New York Sun, StageSpace.com)
Adam's musical Ordinary Days recently premiered at Pennsylvania Centre Stage, made its UK premiere at the Finborough Theatre in London, and was selected for the 2008 NAMT Festival of New Musicals.
His other shows include Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with librettist Julia Jordan and director Joe Calarco), and Ethan Frome. His work has been seen and developed at Primary Stages, the York Theatre, New Dramatists, NAMT, NYMF, the Johnny Mercer Foundation/American Music Theatre Project (where he was one of 14 songwriters-under-30 chosen from across the country to perform original work), Symphony Space, the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the Flea Theater, and many others.
He's currently at work on commissions from Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (as part of its American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation) and Broadway Across America.
Adam is a 2009 MacDowell Colony fellow and was a 2006-07 musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.
