He is a graduate of Brown University.īenj Pasek & Justin Paul (Words and Music) Film projects include the adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for Netflix. Other honors include the OBIE Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award.

He co-created and executive produced the FX series “Fosse/Verdon,” which was nominated for seventeen Emmy® Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, as well as for Critics’ Choice Association and Producers Guild Awards, in addition to winning the Writers Guild Award and an AFI Award for Outstanding Series. He wrote the book for the musical, DEAR EVAN HANSEN, which won six Tony Awards®, including Best Book and Best Musical, as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. His plays include If I Forget, Core Values, Seven Minutes In Heaven and The Language of Trees. Steven is a Tony Award®-winning playwright, screenwriter and television writer and producer. Greif holds a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Regional work includes premieres and revivals at Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center and Trinity Repertory Company. Off-Broadway, he’s received Obie Awards for Machinal, Dogeaters (Public), and Rent (NYTW), and has directed new plays and musicals at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, MCC, New York Theatre Workshop and at Second Stage, where he directed Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen. (Public) and The Tempest, A Winter’s Tale and Romeo and Juliet at The Public’s Delacorte Theater.

Recent work includes Make Believe (Second Stage New York Times Best of 2019), Man in the Ring (Huntington Stage Norton Award for Best Production), Our Lady of Kibeho and Angels in America (NY’s Signature Theatre) The Low Road and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide…. Other Broadway credits: Rent, Grey Gardens, Next to Normal, Never Gonna Dance, If/Then, War Paint. Michael Greif received his fourth Tony nomination and a Helen Hayes Award for his work on Dear Evan Hansen.

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