WHO WE ARE

ERIC PRICE and WILL REYNOLDS are the winners of the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing. They are songwriters on the AppleTV+ animated series Central Park starring Josh Gad, Leslie Odom Jr, Daveed Diggs, Kristen Bell, and Stanley Tucci. They have also written the song “When I See You Again,” which was performed by Laura Osnes as the final track on the Broadway Records’ benefit album Artists in Residence.

 Together they have written the musicals The Violet Hour, Radioactive, Around the World, and The Sixth Borough. Eric and Will have been on the Musical Theatre faculty of Pace University, CAP 21/Molloy College. They are members of the Dramatists Guild and ASCAP. www.reynoldsandprice.com

ERIC PRICE has written the lyrics and book to the musicals The Violet Hour, Radioactive, Presto Change-o, Around the World, Hello Out There, The Sixth Borough, and additional material for the stage adaptation of the film Clue. His work has been produced at theaters in New York, around the country, and in Europe. Production experience includes projects at such institutions as Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Menier Chocolate Factory, Barrington Stage, Symphony Space, Merkin Recital Hall, Minetta Lane Theatre, Audible.com, Joe's Pub, 54 Below (including solo show), Birdland, the Ravinia Festival, and more. Eric’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma was commissioned in 2015 and has had over 175 productions around the world. 

In addition to his career as a writer, Eric was the longtime assistant to 21-time Tony Award-winning director/producer Hal Prince and worked with him over the course of twelve years on the development of new musicals that premiered in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, London, and Tokyo. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and has degrees in Directing from Indiana University and Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a four-time Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center finalist, and a member of Goodspeed’s Johnny Mercer Writers Colony and the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat.

Eric was a finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant and the Kleban Prize for both lyrics and libretto. He is an Adjunct Professor of Musical Theatre at Pace University and Molloy College/CAP21 and is a member of The Dramatists Guild and ASCAP. With his collaborator, Will Reynolds, Eric won the 2018 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Writing. www.ericpriceonline.com

WILL REYNOLDS is an actor, writer, and teaching artist. Will has written the music for The Violet Hour (based on the play by Richard Greenberg, recently developed by Manhattan Theatre Club), Radioactive, Around the World, and The Sixth Borough, all with Eric Price, with whom he won the 2018 Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theater Writing.

Will is the composer/creator of The Greenwood Tree (based on the Sonnets by Shakespeare), recently developed by the Stratford Festival in Canada. His song cycle Poems & Moon Songs has been produced as part of the Lincoln Center Songbook Series, and the song “Tavern” (text by Edna St. Vincent Millay) was featured on six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald’s album Go Back Home. His short musical The Whole World Is Watching was commissioned by Marymount Manhattan.

Development opportunities include the Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Goodspeed Writers Colony, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. As an actor, Will has starred off-Broadway in Daddy Long Legs, Sondheim's Passion at Classic Stage Company (cast album on PS Classics), and in new musicals at the Old Globe, the Fifth Avenue, Walnut Street, and the Broadway National Tour of Mamma Mia! Recently, he starred in Streaming Musicals production of Emma. He is on the faculty of Pace University, Molloy College/CAP21, and is the music supervisor for Musical Theatre College Auditions (MTCA). He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, AEA, and ASCAP. Carnegie Mellon alum. 
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