Stephen J. Lawrence
Stephen J. Lawrence is an American composer, living and working in New York City.
Overview
Career overview to date (as of January 2011): composed over 250 songs and scores for Sesame Street, resulting in three shared Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition; composed the title song and several others for Marlo Thomas' Free to Be... You and Me, the landmark million-selling record, book and Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning television special; composed the million-selling single You Take My Breath Away and being awarded three Gold Records; scored the Robert DeNiro movie Bang The Drum Slowly and the cult horror classic Alice, Sweet Alice, which won the music award from the Paris Festival of Fantasy and Science Fiction; composed the songs and score for the live-action movie musical Red Riding Hood starring Isabella Rossellini and Craig T. Nelson lyrics by Michael Korie; composed the HBO animated musical The Tale of Peter Rabbit, starring Carol Burnett, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
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- Composed incidental music for Little Duck by Billy Aronson at Ensemble Studio Theater. 2009
- Composed three songs for A... My Name Is Alice. Outer Critics Drama Award
- Composed incidental music for the Broadway play The Big Love starring Tracey Ullman.
- Composed incidental score for Manhattan Theater Club production of Some People, Some Other People, And What They Finally Do.
- Composed score for No Dogs Allowed, a children's musical. Book by Sonia Manzano, Lyrics by Billy Aronson. Commissioned by Actor's Playhouse, Coral Gables 2006. Revived 2008. New production at Atlantic Theater Company, New York City 2009.
- Composed music for historical musicals for children for his company, Quill Entertainment Company. Shows include: Everybody's Watching: The Making of the Constitution, Glory Road (Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad), Dream (Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Bus Boycott), Paul Revere Rides Again
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