Name Michael Friedman Role Composer | Education Harvard University Music director Beloved | |
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Albums I Never Knew What Hit Me Until Now, Angst Ridden Writer, Diamond Space, Seize The Day Awards Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Similar Alex Timbers, Steven Cosson, Itamar Moses, Daniel Aukin, Bess Wohl | ||
Behind the music bloody bloody andrew jackson composer michael friedman
John Michael Friedman (September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017) was an American composer and lyricist. He was a founding associate artist of The Civilians. He received a 2007 Obie award for sustained excellence. His musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson opened on Broadway in October 2010. He died on September 9, 2017, aged 41, from complications related to HIV/AIDS.
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- Behind the music bloody bloody andrew jackson composer michael friedman
- The song makes a space michael friedman at tedxeast
- Background
- Career
- The Civilians
- Personal life
- References
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Background
Born in Boston, Friedman grew up in Philadelphia. He attended Germantown Friends School, after which he studied history and literature at Harvard College. While at Harvard, he studied under Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky, and Elizabeth Swados.
Career
Friedman wrote music and lyrics for Saved, In the Bubble, The Brand New Kid, God’s Ear, and The Blue Demon. His music has also been heard at the New York Shakespeare Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage, Soho Repertory Theater, Signature Theatre, Theater for a New Audience, and The Acting Company. Regionally, his work has been featured at Hartford Stage, The Humana Festival of New American Plays, ART, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, and internationally at London’s Soho and Gate Theatres and the Edinburgh Festival.
He was the dramaturg for the 2004 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kenny Leon.
He worked with Itamar Moses on The Fortress of Solitude, an adaption based on the Jonathan Lethem book of the same name. It opened September 30, 2014 at The Public Theater.
He was also writing a commissioned work on American history for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a musical about the adult film industry with Bess Wohl and The Civilians titled "Pretty Filthy".
The Civilians
With The Civilians, Friedman was the composer and lyricist for Canard, Canard, Goose?, Gone Missing, [I Am] Nobody's Lunch, This Beautiful City, The Great Immensity, and In the Footprint, and co-author of Paris Commune. His work on Pretty Filthy can be seen in the theater company's premiere production of the new musical.
Personal life
Michael Friedman died of complications related to HIV/AIDS.