Jonathan Larson was born to Allan and Nanette Larson in Mount Vernon, New York, on February 4, 1960. A talented actor and musician, he was offered a full scholarship to Adelphi University on Long Island, where he met his idol (and later mentor) Stephen Sondheim. After graduating, he moved to the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan and, over a ...
Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Original Score, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outer Critics Circle Awa...
Nominations
Mastercard Best New Musical, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, Lambda Literary Award for Drama
Movies
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway, Rent
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Quote
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With this work I celebrate my friends and the many others who continue to fulfill their dreams and to live their lives in the shadow of AIDS. In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
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Fact
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He was awarded the 1997 Back Stage Garland Award for Outstanding Musical Score for "Rent" in a Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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His musical, "Rent" in the Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1997 Drama Logue Award for Production.
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His musical, "Rent," at the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was awarded the 2016 Joseph Jefferson (Non-Equity) Award for Musical or Revue Production.
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His musical, "Rent" at the American Theater Company and About Face Theatres in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2012 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award or Musical Production (Midsize).
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One of Larson's many friends to die young of AIDS was Alison Gertz, whose story was dramatized in the TV movie Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) (TV). One of the attendees of the AIDS support group depicted in the theatrical and cinematic versions of Larson's musical "Rent" is named Ali in her honor. In Something to Live For, Gertz was played by Molly Ringwald, who went on to appear in Larson's off-Broadway musical "tick, tick...BOOM!".
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At Adlelphi University, he was the college roommate of director/writer Todd Robinson.
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Postumously won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the musical Rent (2005), which is loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème.".
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Biography in "American National Biography," Supplement 1, pp. 343-344. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Posthumously won two Tony Awards in 1996 for "Rent": as Best Book (Musical) and as Best Original Musical Score, both music and lyrics.
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode, 2014 music - 1 episode, 2014
Glee
TV Series writer - 1 episode, 2013 lyrics - 1 episode, 2011 music - 1 episode, 2011
From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook
2013
TV Movie writer: "Seasons of Love"
So You Think You Can Dance
2011-2013
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Ànima
2013
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony
2012
TV Special writer: "No Day But Today"
Dancing with the Stars
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode, 2011 music - 1 episode, 2011
The Office
2011
TV Series writer - 1 episode
So You Think You Can Dance Canada
2010
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush
2009
TV Special writer: "Seasons of Love" - as Jonathan D. Larson
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards
2008
TV Special music: "La Vie Boheme" / writer: "Seasons of Love"
The Big Bang Theory
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode, 2008 music - 1 episode, 2008
Rent
2005
writer: "Seasons of Love", "Rent", "You'll See", "One Song Glory", "Light My Candle", "Today 4 U", "Tango: Maureen", "Life Support", "Another Day/No Day But Today reprise", "Out Tonight", "Will I?", "Santa Fe", "I'll Cover You", "Over the Moon", "La Vie Boheme", "I Should Tell You", "Take Me or Leave Me", "Without You", "Goodbye Love", "What You Own", "Finale A", "Your Eyes", "Finale B/No Day But Today", "Seasons of Love B Reprise", "La Vie Boheme B Reprise", "I'll Cover You Reprise/Seasons Of L
Great Performances
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode, 2001 music - 1 episode, 2001
The 51st Annual Tony Awards
1997
TV Special writer: "Rent"
The 50th Annual Tony Awards
1996
TV Special writer: "Seasons of Love", "La Vie Boheme"
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
No Day But Today
2016
Short characters - uncredited
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
2008
TV Movie book
Rent
2005
book of musical play
Away We Go!
1996
Video short
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
No Day But Today
2016
Short composer: theme music - uncredited
Currents
2008
Short viola
Rent
2005
music and lyrics by
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
2006
Video documentary
Away We Go!
1996
Video short
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Away We Go!
1996
Video short
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Away We Go!
1996
Video short
Elevator passenger
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rent
2005
in memory of
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
HBO Boxing After Dark
2011
TV Series
Himself - Interpreter
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
2006
Video documentary
Himself
Broadway: The American Musical
2004
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2006
OFTA Film Award
Online Film & Television Association
Best Music, Adapted Song
Rent (2005)
2006
OFTA Film Award
Online Film & Television Association
Best Music, Adapted Song
Rent (2005)
Known for movies
Rent (2005) as Writer
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards (2008) as Soundtrack
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush (2009) as Soundtrack
$950,000
