He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for Rent and twice received The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award. IG: received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rent. A huge thank you to the tick, tick … BOOM! team Marissa, Ash, DJ, and this beautiful company! Tyler is a proud member of AEA and The Dramatist Guild of America. ![]() As a playwright, his most notable works include The Marks You Leave, which was produced in part by Ronnie Lacroute and the WillaKenzie Estate at the 20th Annual International New York Fringe Festival and has since received an Off-Broadway reading at The Cell Theatre, as well as his newest piece, Even Faster Than a Blink, which recently received its first public reading as a part of the 2022 JAW New Play Festival here at PCS. As a performer, Tyler has also worked on stage at Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, in New York at Feinstein's/54 Below, The Cell Theater, New World Stages, and in Egypt at the Cairo Opera House and the Alexandria Opera House as part of the CIFCET Festival. PCS credits: Hedwig/Yitzhak u/s in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Tyler is a multidisciplinary theater artist, writer, and teacher. No longer feeling the dread of growing older, Jon plays the piano as his friends all sing happy birthday. ![]() On the other line, Stephen Sondheim is calling to praise Jon for his work and tells him he’s got a great future. In the middle of the party, Jon receives a phone call which he lets roll to the answering machine. Jon, rattled by the news, runs through Central Park and finds himself at the Delacorte Theater, where he plays a song to honor their lifelong friendship.įinally, on Jon’s 30th birthday, Susan throws him a party with their friends. Michael then shares that he has recently received an HIV diagnosis. Feeling dejected, Jon goes to Michael’s office to tell him that he’s going to quit the theater. Although the workshop goes well, none of the producers commit to the project. The day of the workshop presentation arrives and despite Jon's worries that no one will come, the audience is full and Jon’s musical theater idol, Steven Sondheim, is in attendance. ![]() The night before the workshop, Susan admits that she has taken a job in Cape Cod and that she will be relocating there, whether he joins her or not. ![]() He fears that if the presentation does not go well and doesn't garner support from producers, he will have wasted his twenties on a pipe dream and, as a result, his agent, the elusive Rosa, will drop him. Jon then spends the next week workshopping his newest musical, Superbia, that he’s spent five years composing. To help Jon, Michael gets him a job at the firm, but Jon is fired that same day. His childhood best friend, Michael, quits acting and takes a market research job at a fancy marketing firm, and moves out of their SoHo apartment and into an upscale building. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Susan, who is a dancer, longs for a simpler life outside of New York City. It is 1990, and with one week until his 30th birthday, Jon, a musical theater composer, describes the anxiety he feels as he ages, and the mounting pressure to write a truly successful musical. The People's Party: BIPOC Affinity Nights.
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