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Drew Fornarola is a composer, lyricist, and playwright living in New York City.  Drew recently graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Political Science, where he also studied music theory and composition.  While still at Princeton, he joined the BMI Workshop in New York as a composer / lyricist.

SHOWS (full length): COLLEGE The Musical (NYMF; Hippodrome State Theatre; Pace University; University at Buffalo; Princeton University; Published by Dramatic Publishing Company); VOTE (for Me!): A Musical Debate (commissioned by 2-time Tony Award-winning producer Robyn Goodman); CLAUDIO: A Video Game Musical (coming summer 2010, commissioned by the New Musical Development Fund).

SHOWS (one act): Thucydides (Published by Samuel French); Uncle Pirate (Vital Theatre, opens January 2010) Einstein on God (Cantata, Taplin Auditorium); Diptych (10 minute musical for Prospect Theater Company); Letters from a Lost Doll (10 minute musical, BMI Workshop). 

SONGS FEATURED IN: Devil Boys from Beyond (NYC Fringe Festival, 2009, Fringe Award-winner, best play); Good Enough for Now: The Songs of Drew Fornarola (NY Theatre Barn, The Duplex, 2009); A Little New Music (Laurie Beechman, 2009); Everything About a Family, Almost (TADA Youth Theater Company, 2009); Dream Makers and Heart Breakers: Composers You Should Know (Transport Group, Connelly Theater, 2009) New American Songbook Concerts (Arts & Artists, Lincoln Center, 2007, 2008); Hooked: at the Zipper Theater Concerts (2007, 2008); The Impotence of Being Earnest (NYC Fringe Festival, 2006); The Greatest Holiday Musical Ever (Lively Arts Productions, 2006).  

AWARDS:   2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Play Festival - WINNER
                   2009 Richard Rodgers Award -
FINALIST
                   2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence in Writing (Lyrics) -
WINNER
                   2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival Award for Excellence in Writing (Music) - 
HONORABLE MENTION
                   2008 PACE New Musicals Competition -
WINNER
                   2007 MTV Award for music video of "Good Enough for Now" from COLLEGE The Musical  -
WINNER
                   2004 Princeton Triangle Club Milton Lyons Award for Outstanding Writing -
WINNER

SOUND DESIGN (Off-Broadway): Devil Boys from Beyond (The Actor's Playhouse); Circumcise Me (Bleecker Street Theatre); Stuck (Theater   Row, Beckett Theater).
"Tired," from COLLEGE: The Musical, Zodiaque Dance Company