Finding Your Writing Partner with Tony Award Winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

Multi award-winning theatrical songwriting duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime," "Once on This Island, "Seussical," Anastasia") sit down with DGF President Andrew Lippa to chat about their early beginnings as a composer and lyricist and how they teamed up for this episode of "Legacy Project," presented by the Dramatists Guild Foundation.
Produced by the Dramatists Guild Foundation, the Legacy Project is a series of interviews featuring prominent contemporary American playwrights, lyricists, and composers. Each interview offers an intimate look into the lives and creative process of these writers of the theater.
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The Legacy Project was originally conceived by Jonathan Reynolds. Producers include Nancy Ford, Carol Hall, Peter Ratray and Jonathan Reynolds. The interviews are filmed and directed by Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest of Transient Pictures. The Dramatists Guild Fund’s Media Advisor is Leonard Majzlin.
The Legacy Project: Volume III is made possible through the support of DGF Board Member Roe Green & The Roe Green Foundation.

[@odaiko]

They’re both such tremendous talents, and I love how their eyes still light up when they talk about and play their older work. What a duo.

[@vilkomen]

I wish they would let each other talk. I love their work. Ragtime is beautiful. Once on the island, Anastasia, and Seussical are all so much fun.

[@ChadBarnier]

Great info and insight but wish they let Lynn speak…

[@LanceoftheNoe]

thank you!

[@roundknittles]

And it’s about dreams.

[@beritbranch2436]

:)