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Biography
Tony Asaro has worked as a librettist, lyricist, conductor, vocalist and producer throughout New York City and the Bay Area. He is a co-founder of The FOGG Theatre, where he currently serves as Artistic Director. For FOGG, Tony has written scores for The Cable Car Nymphomaniac and Flocked Together: The Green Parrots of Telegraph Hill. In 2008, he was honored with the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Award for songwriting. As a composer/librettist, Tony wrote Our Country, with Dan Collins, which went on to win four Planet Connections awards (including Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, and Outstanding Book, Music & Lyrics of a Musical). Tony's first musical, Family bowed at SCU (1999) and the Ryan Repertory Theatre, New York (2000). Tony's opera All Wounds Bleed, developed at American Lyric Theater under the auspices of the Composer Librettist Development Program with composer Christopher Cerrone was showcased in OPERA America's 2012 New Works Forum, and received its world premiere at Tulsa Opera in 2013. Tony holds an undergraduate degree in Theatre and Music from Santa Clara University, and a Masters Degree in Musical Theatre Writing from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts. In 2011, he was a first-year Resident Artist in American Lyric Theater's Composer Librettist Development Program. His adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Halloween Tree with Theo Popov is in development with ALT.
OPERA America/Opera.ca Grants Awarded
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| GRANT NAME | YEAR | New Works Forum Showcase | 2012 |
Productions
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Artist Information
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