Mindi Dickstein

Biography

MINDI DICKSTEIN wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical LITTLE WOMEN (MTI; Ghostlight/Sh-k-boom), which has been performed worldwide since its Broadway debut in 2005.

Recent productions include MAIDEN VOYAGE (book and lyrics), with music by Carmel Dean, produced by New Works Provincetown at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London, where it was nominated for five London Fringe Theatre Awards (best musical, best lyrics, best music, best direction, and best video production). WITNESSES (lyrics), also written with composer Carmel Dean, is a group show based on the diaries of teens who perished during the holocaust and was created by five songwriting teams with a book by Robert L. Freedman; the world premiere at the California Center for the Arts was awarded the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Production. BENNY & JOON (lyrics), with music by Nolan Gasser and book by Kirsten Guenther, had its world premiere at The Old Globe, San Diego (by special arrangement with H2H Productions) and was nominated for Outstanding New Musical by the San Diego Theater Critics Circle. BENNY & JOON has been developed at NAMT, Transport Group, the Johnny Mercer Goodspeed Colony (aka The Grove), Theatreworks Silicon Valley, and the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. And THE PILOT AND THE LITTLE PRINCE (lyrics) - American title: SAINT EX AND THE LITTLE PRINCE - with music by Bob and Bill and a book by Michael Wolk -- a multimedia musical which had its world premiere in Katowice, Poland, produced by Gorgeous Entertainment and MassBuzz.

Mindi’s work has been commissioned, produced, performed, and developed widely, including by Disney (TOY STORY - the musical), Second Stage and The Old Globe (SNOW IN AUGUST), Playwrights Horizons (TRIP, based on Rip Van Winkle, a Harold and Mimi Steinberg Commission), ASCAP Workshop (Bernice Cohen Award for Outstanding Emerging Composers and Lyricists), The Kennedy Center, 54 Below, and Lincoln Center (“Hear and Now: Contemporary Lyricists”). In addition to those already noted, honors include a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, two New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowships, a Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship, the Jane Chambers Award, and a Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. She was an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow at and received her MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, where she currently serves on the faculty.