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Book, score, and direction: the voices shaping XTRAVAGANZA, and the team around them.
Book
R. Eric Thomas is a national bestselling author, award-winning playwright, and screenwriter. For his playwriting, Eric has been awarded the Barrymore Award for Best New Play, the Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Steinberg/ATA New Play Award.
Music & Lyrics
Khiyon Hursey is a writer and composer who got his start as the music assistant on the off-Broadway and Broadway productions, and the Grammy Award-winning cast album, of Hamilton. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting.
Director
Stevie Walker-Webb is an Obie Award-winning Broadway director, playwright, and cultural worker. He is a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre and The Lily Award in honor of Lorraine Hansberry, awarded by the Dramatists Guild of America.
Music Supervisor
Additional Music
Dramaturg
Dramaturg