Behind the Curtain Series: Telling the Story With New York Writer/Director Eric Price
This is a FREE, online event. Streaming link will be posted here April 23.
Behind the Curtain Series: Telling the Story With New York Writer/Director Eric Price
This is a FREE, online event. Streaming link will be posted here April 23.
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DateApr 23, 2021
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Event Starts7:30 PM
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LocationStreaming Virtual Concert
Event Details
Writers and directors play essential roles in telling the theatrical story. Both a director and writer, Eric will explain what it takes to get the words from the page to the stage.
Eric Price is a writer, director and educator. With his collaborator, Will Reynolds, he won the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing. Eric has written the lyrics and books to the musicals The Violet Hour, Radioactive, Presto Change-o, Around the World, Hello Out There, The Sixth Borough, and additional material for the stage adaptation of the film Clue, which was the #1 most produced play in American schools during the 2019-20 season. He has also written an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, which has been produced the world over. In addition to his career as a writer, Eric was the longtime assistant to 21-time Tony Award-winning director/producer Hal Prince, and worked with him over the course of 12 years on the development of new musicals that premiered in New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., as well as London and Tokyo. He has written material for the Apple TV animated series Central Park and his song “When I See You Again” (music by Will Reynolds) was the final track on Broadway Records benefit album “Artists in Residence” He’s a member of The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Eric studied Directing at Indiana University and received an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He teaches musical theatre history, writing and performance at Pace and CAP21, and is the co-founder of This “MT Space,” an online musical theatre education platform.