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Awards. Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2010) Tony Award for Best Original Score (2009) Brian Yorkey is an American playwright and lyricist. His works often explore dark and controversial subject matter such as mental illness, grief, the underbelly of suburbia, and ethics in both psychiatry and public education.
Next to Normal is a 2008 American rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story centers on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The musical addresses grief, depression, suicide, drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry, and the ...
- Brian Yorkey
- Tom Kitt
May 6, 2017 · Yorkey and his team of writers agonized over whether or not to include Hannah’s suicide for “days and days.” The reason they eventually opted to show it, he explains, had to do with ...
Apr 14, 2010 · MURREY JACOBSON: Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt are the co-creators of the musical Next to Normal, which won the Pulitzer prize for drama on Monday. Brian wrote the books and lyrics, Tom wrote the ...
Jan 3, 2011 · Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's musical Next to Normal won the Pulitzer for its authors -- the book and lyrics are by Yorkey, the music by Kitt. Yet it began simply as an exercise for a musical ...
13 Reasons Why. episodes. 13 Reasons Why is an American teen drama television series developed for Netflix by Brian Yorkey, based on the 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher. [1] During the course of the series, 49 episodes of 13 Reasons Why were released over four seasons, between March 31, 2017, and June 5, 2020.
Jun 21, 2018 · Brian Yorkey, 13 Reasons Why. Today, death is no longer invisible, it has come out of the taboo zone and confronts us in ways unimaginable before. It is seen not as something extraordinary – it has rather become a spectacle. For this reason, Jacobsen (2016) has proposed the term “spectacular death” as characterizing the current attitude ...
