MEL MARVIN (Composer) Broadway: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Cymbeline, A History of the American Film, Tintypes (Tony Award® nomination.), Yentl, Fascinating Rhythm. Off-Broadway: The Portable Pioneer & Prairie Show, Variety Obit, Polly, Green Pond, Das Lusitania Songspiel, Gorky, Shoemaker’s Holiday, Legs, Prizewinning Plays. Regional theatre musicals: Elmer Gantry, Perfect 36, Joan of Arc, Horatio, Jubalee, Scenes from the Book of Candy, Eden. He has written dozens of scores for productions of plays, from Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen (Lincoln Center Theater, The Guthrie, A.R.T., Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum) to Tony Kushner (world premiere, Angels in America). Other musicals for young audiences: Little Miss Hollywood, Madeline’s Rescue, Strega Nona Meets Her Match, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, A Cricket in Times Square, Gold, East of the Sun, West of the Moon. (The Grinch and all the other young audience shows were written for his daughter, Kate.) He has written three operas: Guest From the Future, which premiered at Bard Summerscape in 2004; Buwalsky, a Road Opera, commissioned for Holland’s Opera Spanga, later on tour to Yale and the Skirball Center NYC; and Truth and Reconciliation, performed at the O’Neill Theatre Center and at Opera America. Concept album: Lives of the Artists. He has also worked extensively as a director for theatre (musicals as well as Shepard, Stoppard, Ibsen) and opera (for the Metropolitan Opera Guild). He has served on NEA and other award panels, as well as the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group. He was head Faculty Composer and Director of Production, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, from 1994 to 2024.