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Masi Asare

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Representation

Charles Kopelman, Abrams Artists Agency

Masi Asare

Biography

MASI ASARE is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. Shows include: THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (book/music/lyrics; Theatre Royal Stratford East commission, developed Eugene O’Neill Center); RISHVOR (book/music/lyrics), a new musical about racial passing commissioned by Barbara Whitman/Grove Entertainment; the secret agent musical SYMPATHY JONES (music/lyrics/concept; New York Musical Festival, published/licensed by Playscripts); and MONSOON WEDDING (lyrics), the Broadway bound new adaptation of Mira Nair’s film. A past Dramatists Guild Fellow, Masi has received the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for a woman composer of musicals; both the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award and the Paulette Haupt Composition Prize from the Eugene O’Neill Center; an Emerging Artist Grant from the Theater Hall of Fame, nominated by Daryl Roth; and the Stacey Mindich “Go Write A Musical” Lilly Award. She holds degrees from Harvard and NYU Tisch and is Assistant Professor in the Music Theatre program at Northwestern University.

Professional Experience

  • Regional
  • Concerts/Cabaret
  • Education

Regions

  • NYC/Tri-State Area
  • Chicago/Midwest

Hireable as

  • Theatrical Composer (Music and Lyrics)
  • Bookwriter/Librettist
  • Songwriter
  • Singer/Songwriter
  • Vocal Arranger
  • Voice teacher with roster of private students
  • Classroom music teacher at an educational institution

My Instruments

  • Piano
  • Voice

Software

  • Finale

Affiliations

  • ASCAP
  • THE DRAMATISTS GUILD
  • MAESTRA

Pronouns

  • She/Her