Will Aronson

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William Landry Aronson (b. 1981, New Haven, Connecticut) is a contemporary American composer and writer for musical theater.

[edit] Background

Will Aronson holds a B.A. in music from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, Aronson was the composer of Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 154th production, Snow Place Like Home (1), and co-author/lyricist of its 155th production, It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2).

After graduation from Harvard, Aronson studied Music Theory as a Fulbright Scholar at Universität der Künste in Berlin (3).

Aronson holds an M.F.A. from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. While studying at NYU, he received the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Scholarship (4) and a 2006 Baryshnikov Fellowship (5). In 2007 he was named by the Dramatists Guild of America as one of "50 to Watch."

[edit] Recent work

Aronson recently completed the score for a musical version of the Korean movie "My Scary Girl" (book and lyrics by Kyoung-ae Kang), scheduled to open in Seoul in 2009. The show was awarded first prize by the selection committee of the second Daegu International Musical Festival, and will be performed there on July 5-6, 2008 (6). The English language version of the show, with book co-written by Mark St. Germain, was selected for the third season of Barrington Stage Company's Musical Theatre Lab series, to be performed July 10-26, 2008 (7).

Aronson is also writing The Trouble with Doug with Daniel Maté. The musical, an adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, was selected for performance at the Third Annual Festival of New Artists at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2008 (8).

Aronson's work also includes music for Sybille Pearson's play Next, in collaboration with lyricist William Finn.