Michael Korie (lyricist, librettist) received The Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his work in both musical theater and opera. He wrote the lyrics to composer Scott Frankel’s music for the Broadway productions of War Paint and Grey Gardens, both with books by playwright Doug Wright, and the Off- Broadway productions of Far From Heaven, Happiness, Doll, and Meet Mister Future.  Korie and Frankel’s scores have been nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards, received The Outer Critics Circle Award, and have been produced on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, throughout the USA, in Europe and South America. Grey Gardens had its European premiere in London where it was awarded the Offie Award for Best Musical of the year. He collaborated with Lucy Simon, Amy Powers, and Michael Weller on the musical Doctor Zhivago which has had numerous worldwide productions. His newest collaboration is Flying Over Sunset, book by James Lapine and music by Tom Kitt. It is scheduled to open at Lincoln Center Theater in Spring, 2021.  https://www.lct.org/shows/flying-over-sunset

For opera, he adapted John Steinbeck’s novel for the libretto to The Grapes of Wrath composed by Ricky Ian Gordon. His original librettos to operas composed by Stewart Wallace include Harvey Milk, Where’s Dick?, Kabbalah, Hopper’s Wife, SuperMax set to premiere in 2021, and Harvey Milk which returns in a new production in 2021 at Opera Theater of Saint Louis. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with composer Ricky Ian Gordon premieres in 2021 at New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre. https://nycopera.com  His operas have been produced at San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera, New York City Opera, BAM Next Wave Festival, Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Michigan Opera, and abroad in Germany and Australia.

Korie’s lyrics have received the Edward Kleban Prize, Jonathan Larson Award, and the ASCAP Richard Rodgers Award. His songs with composer Scott Frankel were featured at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, and at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage Broadway Today. He serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild, co-chairs the Opera Librettists Committee, and moderates the musical theater division of the Dramatist Guild Fund Fellows Program. He teaches lyric writing at Yale, and libretto writing at Columbia. He is a Fellow of MacDowell and Yaddo.  www.MichaelKorie.com

Concord Music Publishing and Concord Theatricals are proud to represent Michael Korie’s publishing and theatrical licensing catalog including:

Far From Heaven

Grey Gardens

War Paint