Lewis Flinn

Lewis Flinn is the composer and lyricist of the Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones (with a book by Douglas Carter Beane) that also ran at The Dallas Theater Center and Off-Broadway with the Transport Group. Other current projects with Beane include Hood (Dallas Theater Center, Best Musical of Dallas 2017) and the upcoming To Wong Foo and StarSpangled. Other musicals include Like Love (NYMF) and The Winner (Lyric Stage, Dallas), as well as Gepetto, Waitress and Robber and Packrat with the Concrete Temple Theater Company.

Flinn has composed scores and songs for over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions, including Tony-nominated The Little Dog Laughed, Charles Busch’s Die, Mommie, Die!, The Divine Sister, The Tribute Artist (Drama Desk Nomination for Best Music) and The Third Story. Other theaters include Playwrights Horizons, MCC, South Coast Rep, The Geffen Playhouse, The Cleveland Play House, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theater, 2nd Stage Theater, and the Drama Dept.

He has been a guest artist at Cornell, Dartmouth, The Boston Conservatory, The Royal Academy London and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He composed the themes and music for the TV shows Power of 10 and Million Dollar Password, as well as scores for dozens of national commercials. He is a graduate of Princeton University and lives in New York with husband Douglas Carter Beane and their children, Cooper and Gaby, and dogs, Lucky and Albert.