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Masi Asare
Masi Asare

Masi Asare

Masi Asare is a composer and lyricist. Broadway: Paradise Square (lyrics, Tony/Outer Critics Circle nominee). Off-Broadway/International: Monsoon Wedding (lyrics), Notes From Now (contributed music/lyrics). Commissions: Theatre Royal Stratford East, Barbara Whitman/Grove, Lilly Awards, Toulmin Foundation. In development: Delta Blue (music/lyrics, Goodspeed JMF Grove), The Family Resemblance (book/music/lyrics, O’Neill), Rishvor (book/music/lyrics), Garden of Starflowers (book/music/lyrics). Her spy musical Sympathy Jones (music/lyrics), and Marvel superhero play Mirror of Most Value have collectively had 100+ productions. Honors: Dramatists Guild Fellow, Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award, Theater Hall of Fame Grant, Women to Watch on Broadway. Degrees: Harvard, NYU Tisch.

Masi is also a performance scholar who studies race, voice and musicals, and her book Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage is coming October 2024 from Duke University Press. She is on the theatre faculty at Northwestern. https://masiasare.com

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