Playwright: THE STRONG FRIEND, AND COMPANY

Masi Asare (she/her) is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. Shows include: THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (book/music/lyrics; developed at Live and In Color/ Bingham Camp and Eugene O’Neill Center); the new musical adaptation of Mira Nair’s film MONSOON WEDDING (lyrics), to open at Leeds Playhouse and London’s The Roundhouse in summer 2021; spy musical SYMPATHY JONES (music/lyrics/concept; NYMF; Playscripts); and a one-act play about teen super hero Ms. Marvel, MIRROR OF MOST VALUE (Marvel/Samuel French). Commissions: Theatre Royal Stratford East, Babara Whitman/Grove Entertainment, Victory Gardens/ Toulmin Foundation. A past Dramatists Guild Fellow, Masi won the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for a woman composer of musicals, awards for composition and lyrics from the O’Neill, a Theater Hall of Fame Emerging Artist Grant, and the Stacey Mindich “Go Write A Musical” Lilly Award. An advisory board member for MAESTRA, she holds degrees from Harvard and NYU Tisch and is on the Theatre department faculty at Northwestern University.