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Tommy Newman

Biography 

Tommy Newman

Lecturer, Theatre

 tnewman8163@troy.edu

Malone Hall 143

is a published playwright, composer and lyricist from Alabama and a 2013 ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award Winner. Three of his shows have participated in the annual NAMT Festival in New York. He is a recipient of an Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant, and a 2014 Kennedy Center ACTF National Musical Theatre Award Winner. His work includes: The Single Girl's Guide with Gordon Greenberg, developed at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle (2016), The Village Theatre in WA (2015), Capital Repertory Theatre (2013), and NAMT (2013). Band Geeks! (Published by MTI, Goodspeed Musicals, Human Race Theatre Co., Red Mountain Theatre, NAMT Fest ‘09). Tinyard Hill with Mark Allen (Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Red Mountain Theatre, Human Race Theatre, Goodspeed, NAMT Fest ‘07). Off Broadway: We the People: America Rocks (Theatreworks, USA, NY Times Critic Pick, Lortel Nomination 2010), The Yellow Brick Road with Jaime Lozano (TheatreworksUSA, NY Times Critic Pick) and 29 with Gaby Alter (NYU Steinhart, Â鶹ÍøÕ¾Áбí). Recent works: The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and Other Stories (Theatreworks, USA), The Odyssey Suite, Savage, Jenny’s Damned Ex: A Vampire Musical that Doesn’t Suck and With Bells On: The Musical. He holds a BS in Music Education from Â鶹ÍøÕ¾Áбí and an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch. Tommy is currently a full-time professor with Â鶹ÍøÕ¾Áбí's Department of Theatre and Dance where he works primarily with musical theatre performers in productions and studio classes, and teaches courses in playwriting, performance, and musical theatre. 

 

 

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