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Ken Ludwig
Biography of Ken Ludwig

Here's a pretty up-to-date bio that theatres can use in their programs.
It's current as of July, 2008
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Ken Ludwig has had a number of hits on Broadway, in London and throughout the world. He has won the coveted Laurence Olivier Award, London’s highest theatre honor, in addition to two Tony Award nominations and two Helen Hayes Awards. His work has been performed in over 30 countries in at least 20 languages.

His best known play is Lend Me A Tenor, which won two Tony Awards and the Olivier Award nomination for Best Play and was produced in London and New York by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The New York Times recently called it “one of the two great farces by a living writer.” This was followed by the musical Crazy For You, which won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical. His next Broadway play was Moon Over Buffalo, which marked Carol Burnett’s return to Broadway after 30 years, then starred Lynn Redgrave and Robert Goulet on Broadway and was followed by a London production starring Joan Collins and Frank Langella at the legendary Old Vic. His next Broadway play was Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche. This was followed by the Broadway musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Ken’s proudest accomplishment was being commissioned by England’s Royal Shakespeare Company, for which he wrote the comedy Shakespeare In Hollywood which went on to win the Helen Hayes Award as Best New Play of the Year.

His latest plays include Leading Ladies (which he also directed); Be My Baby with Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter; an adaptation of The Three Musketeers which was commissioned by Bristol Old Vic; an adaptation of Treasure Island; and The Beaux’ Stratagem, which is an adaptation of a Restoration comedy begun by Thornton Wilder, which he completed at the request of the Wilder Estate. His newest musical, An American in Paris, opened in the spring of 2008 at the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas. And he is currently writing a movie for The Walt Disney Studio.

He is an Associate Artist of the Alley Theatre. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein and theatre history at Cambridge University in England. For further information, see www.kenludwig.com.


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