Lonny Price
LONNY PRICE directed and co-authored the Ed Kleban musical A Class Act on Broadway (five Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical) and in Los Angeles and Tokyo. He won an Emmy for his film of Sweeney Todd (broadcast on PBS), directed the original cast reunion performances of Falsettos that inaugurated Playwrights Horizons' new complex on Theatre Row and staged the Broadway musical Urban Cowboy. Previously on Broadway, he directed Joan Rivers in her Tony-nominated turn as Lenny Bruce's mother in Sally Marr...and her escorts (co-authored with Ms. Rivers and Erin Sanders). Off-Broadway, he supervised the Manhattan Theatre Club's remounting of Athol Fugard's Valley Song and directed Jules Feiffer's Grown Ups, Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green (starring Eli Wallach) and revivals of The Rothschilds and Juno. He has worked with Patti LuPone on a series of staged concert versions of musicals including Pal Joey (Encores!, with Peter Gallagher), Annie Get Your Gun (Lincoln Center with Mr. Gallagher), Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center with George Hearn and the N.Y. Philharmonic) and A Little Night Music (the Ravinia Festival with Mr. Hearn and Zoe Caldwell). He was staff director of ABC's One Life to Live (Emmy nomination) and is the former artistic director of Musical Theatre Works, where he is currently resident director. As an actor, he has appeared on and Off-Broadway in a variety of plays and musicals including Burn This, The Immigrant, MASTER HAROLD...and the boys., A Class Act and Merrily We Roll Along, receiving an Obie, Theatre World and Drama-Logue Awards. Bio as of September, 2006. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Production: Avenue Q - September, 2003 - Watch now. Production: Urban Cowboy - April, 2003 - Watch now. Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 2001 - Watch now. Playwright and Director - April, 1998 - Watch now. Playwright, Director and Choreographer - April, 1994 - Watch now. Playwright, Director and Choreographer - September, 1990 - Watch now. Performance - September, 1982 - Watch now. SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2003, 2006 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)