Stephen Dolginoff is an award-winning, New York City based playwright-composer. His most notable work is Thrill Me, the musical version of the true story of Leopold and Loeb, which opened Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in 2005.[1] Subsequently it was published by Dramatists Play Service.[2] and has been performed in cities across America, as well as internationally in cities such as London, Melbourne & Sydney, Australia; Athens, Greece and Seoul, South Korea.[3] Dolginoff won an ASCAP Music Award for the score of Thrill Me and was nominated for New York's Drama Desk Award for both Best Musical and Best Music Score[4] as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Off-Broadway Musical.[5] The Los Angeles production was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Musical in an Intimate Theatre.[6] In 2009, Dolginoff received a Los Angeles Garland Award honorable mention for the Music & Lyrics of Thrill Me.[7]
For his 1994 musical, One Foot Out the Door, he received the Bistro Award, given by Back Stage Newspaper for Outstanding Book, Music & Lyrics.
Dolginoff has also written the musicals Most Men Are, Journey to the Center of the Earth[8] and Panic(which opened at the Lamb Theatre in April 2009).[9] As an actor, Dolginoff portrayed the role of Nathan Leopold, in the Off Broadway,[10] Seattle,[11] and Buffalo[12] productions of Thrill Me.
He was born and raised in Kansas City.