Ken Ludwig has had six shows on Broadway and
six in the West End, and he has won two Laurence Olivier Awards,
three Tony Award nominations, two Helen Hayes Awards and the
Edgar Award. His work has been commissioned by the Royal
Shakespeare Company and has been performed in thirty countries
in over twenty languages. Broadway and West End shows include
Crazy For You;
Lend Me A Tenor;
Moon Over Buffalo;
Twentieth Century; The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer; and
Treasure Island. Other
major plays include
Shakespeare in Hollywood;
Leading Ladies;
Be My Baby;
The Beaux' Stratagem, an
adaptation with Thornton Wilder at the request of the Wilder
Estate;
The Three Musketeers;
The Fox on the Fairway;
‘Twas The Night Before Christmas;
Midsummer/Jersey;
The Game's Afoot; and
The Hound of the Baskervilles. His book, How To
Teach Your Children Shakespeare, will be published in 2012
by Crown Publishing. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard
Bernstein and theatre history at Cambridge University in
England. For more information, please visit
www.kenludwig.com. |