Production Staff
Lear deBessonet is the Founder of Public Works and Resident Director at the Public Theater. For Public Works, she has directed pageant-style musical adaptations of The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and The Odyssey at the Delacorte, each featuring two-hundred New Yorkers from all five boroughs.
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Lyricist
Hudes is an American playwright, lyricist and essayist. She is best known for writing the book for the musical In the Heights. Her play Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Water by the Spoonful. ... read more
Lyricist
Awards and Nominations
2018 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lyrics: Quiara Alegría Hudes was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lyrics: Erin McKeown was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music: Erin McKeown was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Erin McKeown was nominated but did not win.
2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Quiara Alegría Hudes was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical: Miss You Like Hell was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Score: Erin McKeown was nominated but did not win.
