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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 December, 2008
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An internationally acclaimed playwright, 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 works include CRAZY FOR YOU, which won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical, LEND ME A TENOR, which won two Tony Awards and the Olivier Award nomination for Best Play was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and was recently called “one of the two great farces by a living writer” by The New York Times, MOON OVER BUFFALO, which marked Carol Burnett’s return to Broadway after 30 years, then starred Lynn Redgrave and Robert Goulet on Broadway and Joan Collins and Frank Langella at the Old Vic in London, TWENTIETH CENTURY starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche, the Broadway musical THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, the play SHAKESPEARE IN HOLLYWOOD, which was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and went on to win the Helen Hayes Award as Best New Play of the Year, SULLIVAN & GILBERT, a play with music, and POSTMORTEM, a mystery.

His latest plays include LEADING LADIES, BE MY BABY, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, which was commissioned by Bristol Old Vic, THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM, which is an adaptation of a Restoration comedy begun by Thornton Wilder, completed at the request of the Wilder Estate, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, a new Gershwin musical, and TREASURE ISLAND, which recently played to acclaim at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End and won the 2009 AATE Distinguished Play Award for Best Adaptation.

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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