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James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods , Falsettos , and Passion .
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- Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1985)
- Stage director, playwright, screenwriter, librettist
- James Elliot Lapine, January 10, 1949 (age 74), Mansfield, Ohio, U.S.
JAMES LAPINE was born in Mansfield, Ohio and lived there until his early teens when his family moved to Stamford, Connecticut. He attended public schools before entering Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he majored in History. He went on to get an MFA in Design from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.
A leading playwright and stage director, James Lapine briefly shifted his attentions to film in the early 1990s, but after two well-crafted features that earned modest box office takes, he ...
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James Lapine BIO. Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos ...
James Lapine was born on 10 January 1949 in Mansfield, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Into the Woods (2014), American Playhouse (1982) and The Moment When. He is married to Sarah Kernochan.
- January 10, 1949
Nov 17, 2021 · When James Lapine read an excerpt from Sylvia Jukes Morris’s masterly biography of Clare Boothe Luce, he saw the makings of a play. Dubbed “The Woman of the Century” during her illustrious ...
Jul 28, 2021 · James Lapine’s book shows how he and Stephen Sondheim invested two years of work to burnish their musical from an avant-garde near-disaster to a mainstream classic. Share full article.
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