James Elliot Lapine was born on January 10,1949 and is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist.
21 Facts About James Lapine
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James Lapine has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion.
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James Lapine has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.
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James Lapine graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1971.
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James Lapine did graduate study in photography and graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts, where he received an MFA in 1973.
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James Lapine was a photographer, graphic designer, and architectural preservationist, and taught design at the Yale School of Drama.
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James Lapine went on to write and direct Off-Broadway plays and musicals, directing composer William Finn's March of the Falsettos in 1981; the musical won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play.
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In 1992, James Lapine returned to working with William Finn, and wrote the book and directed the Broadway musical Falsettos.
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James Lapine wrote the book and Finn composed the music for A New Brain, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1998.
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James Lapine has directed dramas, including Dirty Blonde, which ran Off-Broadway and then on Broadway in 2000.
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James Lapine was nominated for the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Direction of a Play.
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James Lapine wrote a stage adaption of the Moss Hart autobiography Act One, which premiered on Broadway at the Lincoln Center Vivian Beaumont Theater in April 2014.
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James Lapine wrote the book for and directed the new musical Flying Over Sunset.
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In 1991, James Lapine directed his first film, Impromptu, which has a screenplay by his wife, Sarah Kernochan.
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James Lapine followed with Life With Mikey, with Michael J Fox for Disney.
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James Lapine directed the film version of Anne Tyler's novel Earthly Possessions, starring Susan Sarandon and Stephen Dorff, for HBO in 1999.
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James Lapine wrote the screenplay for Disney's film version of Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall.
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James Lapine wrote and directed the film Custody in 2016 with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, and Catalina Sandino Moreno.
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James Lapine received the 2015 Mr Abbott Award at a special gala on October 19,2015.
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James Lapine is married to American screenwriter and director Sarah Kernochan.
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James Lapine has written the libretti for the following musicals:.