Brokaw was raised in Aledo, Illinois, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He received a Drama League fellowship and was initially given directing work through Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman, artistic heads of the Second Stage Theatre.
He has directed many off-Broadway productions, and his New York work includes premieres by Lynda Barry (The Good Times Are Killing Me), Douglas Carter Beane (As Bees in Honey Drown), Neal Bell, Eric Bogosian, Keith Bunin, Charles Busch, Kevin Elyot, Lisa Kron (2.5 Minute Ride), Lisa Loomer, Kenneth Lonergan (This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero), Craig Lucas (Dying Gaul), Eduardo Machado, Patrick ... read more
Lewis Flinn is the composer and lyricist of the Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones (with a book by Douglas Carter Beane) that also ran at The Dallas Theater Center and Off-Broadway with the Transport Group. Other current projects with Beane include Hood (Asolo Theater 2020, Dallas Theater Center, Best Musical 0f Dallas 2017) and the upcoming To Wong Foo and Star Spangled. Other musicals include Like Love (NYMF) and The Winner (Lyric Stage, Dallas). Flinn has composed scores and songs for over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions including TONY nominated The Little Dog Laughed, Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die, The ... read more
Broadway: Tony nominations for Noises Off, Machinal and The Constant Wife; plus Charlie Brown, Twelve Angry Men, Heisenberg, new plays by Joe di Pietro, Stephen Belber, Nicky Silver and Elaine May; and the current What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: Premieres by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, John Guare, Teresa Rebeck, Sarah Treem, John Kander/Greg Pierce, Will Eno, Lauren Yee, Lisa Loom-er, Donald Marguilies, and many more. He teaches in the graduate program at Brown University. ... read more
LCT: The King and I, Golden Boy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Coast of Utopia, Blood and Gifts, A Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Belle Epoque. Broadway: You Can't Take It With You, The Bridges of Madison County. Off-Broadway includes various productions at The Public, Signature, Vineyard, TFANA, MTC and NYTW. Regional: Stone Cold Dead Serious, Nocturne (A.R.T.), 13 seasons at Chautauqua Theater Company. ... read more
