![]() A film version of his epochal Off-Broadway musical “THE LAST FIVE YEARS” was released in 2015, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan and directed by Richard LaGravenese. “HONEYMOON IN VEGAS,” based on Andrew Bergman’s film, opened on Broadway in 2015 following a triumphant production at Paper Mill Playhouse. Jason’s score for “THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY,” a musical adapted with Marsha Norman from the bestselling novel, received two Tony Awards (for Best Score and Orchestrations). Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances. His hobby is writing about himself in the third person. He is a co-founder of the Malaparte theater company. ![]() He adapted WOMEN AND WALLACE for PBS-TV’s American Playhouse, and VEINS AND THUMBTACKS is the basis for Frank Whaley’s movie “The Jimmy Show.” He won a Berilla-Kerr Grant, the 21st Century Playwrights Festival, and the Young Playwrights Festival (twice). He wrote the book for the musical BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE. His plays have been performed at Malaparte, The Public Theater, The New Group, Playwrights Horizons, WPA Theater, Los Angeles Theatre Center, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as well as in England, Australia, Israel, Istanbul, and Japan. ![]() His plays include THINGS WE WANT, CLIVE KNICKERBOCKER EVOLUTION, SOPHISTRY, WONDERFUL TIME, VEINS AND THUMBTACKS, SERENDIPITY AND SERENITY, JESUS ON THE OIL TANK, SONS AND FATHERS, and WOMEN AND WALLACE. He was born in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1968, graduated from Bennington College, and lives in New York City. JONATHAN MARC SHERMAN writes plays when he isn’t acting.
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