Urinetown: The Musical

About Greg KotisMark Hollmann

Greg Kotis has written many plays and musicals including Urinetown: The Musical (Book/Lyrics for which he won an Obie Award and two Tony Awards) Give the People What They Want All Your Questions Answered Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards The Boring-est Poem in the World Yeast Nation (Book/Lyrics) The Truth About Santa Pig Farm Eat the Taste and Jobey and Katherine. His work has been produced and developed in theaters across the US and around the world including Actors Theater of Louisville American Conservatory Theater American Theater Company the Eugene ONeill National Theater Conference Henry Millers Theatre (Broadway) Manhattan Theatre Club New York Stage and Film Perseverance Theatre Roundabout Theatre Company Soho Rep South Coast Rep and The Old Globe among others. Greg is a member of the Neo-Futurists the Cardiff Giant Theater Company ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in Wellfleet Massachusetts and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ayun Halliday and their children India and Milo. Mark Hollmann is a musical-theater composer and lyricist who received the Tony Award the National Broadway Theatre Award and the Obie Award for his score to Urinetown: The Musical which itself won Outer Critics Circle Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Musical. In addition Urinetown was selected as one of the seasons best plays in The Best Plays of 2000-2001: The Otis Guernsey/Burns Mantle Theatre Yearbook. From its successful run on Broadway Urinetown has had productions across the US and throughout the world including Japan South Korea Germany Australia Canada and the Philippines. His other musicals as composer/lyricist include Bigfoot and Other Lost Souls; Yeast Nation (the triumph of life); The Man in the White Suit; Alchemist: The Musical; Jack the Chipper; The Girl the Grouch and the Goat; Kabooooom!; I Think I Can; Deal with It! and Fare for All. For television he has written songs for the Disney Channels Johnny and the Sprites. Mark has served on the Tony Nominating Committee and currently serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America and the advisory council of the Dramatists Guild Fund. He is a member of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and lives in New York City with his wife Jillian and their sons Oliver and Tucker.