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Steven Levenson (born May 1984) is an American playwright and television writer. He won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Dear Evan Hansen.
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Original Score or New Orchestrations. Dear Evan Hansen is a musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Steven Levenson. [1] [2] [3] The musical follows Evan Hansen, a high school senior with social anxiety, "who invents an important role for himself in a tragedy that he did not earn".
- Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
- July 10, 2015: Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.
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Dear Evan Hansen. (film) Dear Evan Hansen is a 2021 American coming-of-age musical film directed by Stephen Chbosky from a screenplay by Steven Levenson, based on the stage musical of the same name by Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Ben Platt plays the title role, reprising the performance that he originated on stage six years earlier.
- $19.1 million
- Dan Romer, Justin Paul
- $27–28 million
- Marc Platt, Adam Siegel
Jun 8, 2017 · Steven Levenson had never written a musical until Dear Evan Hansen, which premiered in Washington, D.C. in 2015, opened Off Broadway in 2016, and on Broadway later that year to rave reviews—and ...
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The Language of Steven: Dialogue, Rhythm, and Tempo What Levenson looks for, more specifically, in editing are his characters’ voices. “It’s like tuning a radio,” he explains. “It’s ...
BOOM! (2021) 1 Video. 4 Photos. Levenson was raised in Bethesda, Maryland and attended St. Andrew's Episcopal School and Brown University. He originally studied theater and English but then turned to playwriting. Levenson wrote the book for the musical "Dear Evan Hansen," which opened on Broadway in December 2016, after premiering at the Arena ...
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Jul 20, 2022 · Steven Levenson on Tony Award night, June 11, 2017. Writing is like acting, he says, in that “you’re giving voice to characters and inhabiting people,” but writing is better because “there ...
