Steven Sater

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About Steven Sater
Steven Sater (book and lyrics) was awarded the 2007 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score for Spring Awakening, in addition to The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score (both with Duncan Sheik), the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Lyrics and Outstanding Musical, the Lucille Lortel, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, and Drama League Awards for Best Musical. He is the author of numerous plays, including the longrunning Carbondale Dreams, Perfect for You, Doll (the Rosenthal Prize, Cincinnati Playhouse); Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize); A Footnote to the Iliad (New York Stage and Film, The Miniature Theatre of Chester); Asylum (Naked Angels); Murder at the Gates (commissioned by Eye of the Storm); In Search of Lost Wings (Sanford Meisner Theater) and a reconceived version of Shakespeare’s Tempest, with music by Laurie Anderson, which played London’s Lyric Hammersmith and toured throughout Great Britain. In addition to Spring Awakening, Sater has collaborated with alt-rocker Sheik on the NY premiere of Umbrage (HERE), Nero (The Magic Theatre, workshopped at the New York Shakespeare Festival), and The Nightingale (workshopped at the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference, La Jolla Playhouse, and A.C.T.). He is the lyricist for Sheik’s critically acclaimed album Phantom Moon (Nonesuch), and together the two wrote the songs for Michael Mayer’s feature film A Home at the End of the World (Warner Classics) as well as the independent features Brother’s Shadow and Mary Stuart Masterson’s The Cake Eaters. Sater is co-creator and executive producer, with Paul Reiser, of recent pilots for both NBC and Sony/FX, and has developed two projects for HBO, and another for Showtime (with Reiser). He is also at work, with Jessie Nelson, on a feature film for New Line. In addition, Steven continues to work as a lyricist with various composers in the pop/rock world.