Adam Gwon

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Adam Gwon’s musicals include Ordinary Days (Roundabout Theatre, London’s West End), The Boy Detective Fails (with Joe Meno, Signature Theatre), Cloudlands (with Octavio Solis, South Coast Repertory), and the upcoming Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with Julia Jordan) and String (with Sarah Hammond). His songs have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Cetner, the Kennedy Center, 54 Below, and more, by such luminaries as Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, and Liz Callaway. Adam’s honors include the Kleban, Ebb, and Loewe awards for excellence in musical theater writing, Second Stage Theatre's Donna Perret Rosen Award, the ASCAP Harold Adamson Award, the MAC John Wallowitch Award, Weston Playhouse's New Musical Award, and commissions from Roundabout Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Signature Theatre (Arlington), and Broadway Across America. Recordings include: Ordinary Days (Ghostlight Records), Audra McDonald's Go Back Home (Nonesuch), Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project (recorded by Brian D’Arcy James). Fellowships: MacDowell Colony, Dramatists Guild. Education: NYU/Tisch. Member: ASCAP, Dramatists Guild. www.adamgwon.com.