Artist Profile
Drew Fornarola is a playwright and songwriter from New York City. His play Straight recently concluded a critically acclaimed run Off-Broadway and was designated a 2016 New York Times Critics’ Pick. Fornarola has written for DreamWorks’ Shrek and VeggieTales franchises, and his musical Claudio Quest won six 2015 New York Musical Festival Awards for excellence. Other theater credits include an adaptation of actress Molly Shannon’s children’s book Tilly the Trickster (Atlantic Theater Company), COLLEGE The Musical (Hippodrome State Theater, mtvU Award), Thucydides (Winner of the Samuel French Play Festival), and Vote for Me: A Musical Debate (London Theater Workshop). Concerts of Fornarola’s songs have been presented at Lincoln Center, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway au Carre (Paris), and London Theater Workshop, among others. He is currently developing a stage musical based on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. BA Princeton, JD Fordham, alumnus BMI Musical Theater Workshop. www.drewfornarola.com
