Lynn Ahrens was born on October 1,1948 and is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film.
22 Facts About Lynn Ahrens
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Lynn Ahrens has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years.
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Lynn Ahrens won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime.
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Lynn Ahrens was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for the animated Twentieth Century Fox film Anastasia.
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Lynn Ahrens wrote the teleplay of her 1994 musical adaption of A Christmas Carol, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Ahrens.
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Lynn Ahrens grew up in Neptune Township, New Jersey, where she graduated from Neptune High School on the Jersey shore in 1966.
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Lynn Ahrens graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Journalism and English.
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Lynn Ahrens then began a career in advertising as a copywriter for McCaffrey and McCall.
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Lynn Ahrens was living with her ex-husband in Flushing, sleeping on the floor of his sister's apartment.
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Lynn Ahrens wrote "The Preamble", and it went on the air with Ahrens singing it.
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Lynn Ahrens subsequently worked as a freelance composer and singer of commercial music, and wrote and produced a number of songs for children's television, particularly Captain Kangaroo.
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Lynn Ahrens began writing for the musical theater in 1982.
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In 1992, Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens were signed by Disney to write Song of the Sea, a coming of age story about a whale, in the era of Disney films known as the Disney Renaissance.
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Lynn Ahrens has written music and lyrics for and performed on the animated television series Schoolhouse Rock from 1973 to 2009.
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Lynn Ahrens has written a few songs for Captain Kangaroo since the mid 1970s, including the 1982 theme song, "Here Comes Captain Kangaroo".
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Lynn Ahrens wrote the teleplay for the 2004 television musical A Christmas Carol, starring Kelsey Grammer, Jane Krakowski, and Jason Alexander.
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Lynn Ahrens writes short stories which have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Calyx, Glimmer Train Stories and others.
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Lynn Ahrens is a lifetime member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America, and is a founder and co-chair of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for Emerging Writers.
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Lynn Ahrens wrote text for the concert piece With Voices Raised, which was commissioned by the Boston Pops Orchestra in 2000.
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Lynn Ahrens wrote text for the concert piece The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, which was commissioned and performed by the Boston Pops in 2009, and narrated by Robert De Niro, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Cherry Jones.
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Lynn Ahrens wrote lyrics for the choral piece, "The Song I Sing", commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York, and performed at Carnegie Hall by a chorus of 1000 children.
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Lynn Ahrens, best known for their score for Ragtime, continue to see the humanist potential in the medium.