NYFOS Composer Bios
Mark Campbell, lyricist/librettist
Awards
- First recipient of the Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist, chosen by a 3-person panel headed by Stephen Sondheim
- 2004 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award
- 2002 Sundance Theatre Lab Alumnus
- 2001, 1999 and 1998 MacDowell Fellow
- 2000 New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship (Therèse Raquin) 1996 Drama Desk Award nomination for Best Lyrics (Splendora) 1995 Richard Rodgers Production Award (Splendora) 1995 Rockefeller Foundation Award for the lyrics to Chiori Miyagawa’s play, Nothing Forever
- 1994 Richard Rodgers Development Award (The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May)
Current Projects
- Libretto for A Letter to East 11th Street, music by Martin Hennessey A Song Cycle for singer/actor Michael Winther with various composers Film adaptation of Dawn Powell’s novel, A Happy Island, with Ivy Meeropol
- Lyrics for an adaptation of Wharton’s The House of Mirth with A.R. Gurney and Michael Torke
- Short libretti for The Tell-Tale Heart and A Hunger Artist
Recordings
- Andrea Marcovicci’s New Words (Cabaret Records) Broadway Bound (Varèse Sarabande)
- In Celebration of Life, A Benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (Abrams-Gentile)
Productions/Workshops
- Libretto for Volpone, an opera commissioned by the Wolf Trap Foundation, 2004 Two short libretti: adaptations of Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart and Kafka’s A Hunger Artist,American Opera Projects, 2003 Lyrics for Broken Morning, HERE, 2003 Lyrics for The Paradise Project (music by Michael Torke), The Kitchen, 2003 Lyrics for The Awakening, P.S. 122, November 2000 Lyrics for Splendora (Bay Street Theatre Festival and American Place Theatre, directed by Jack Hofsiss), 1995 (Revived by Illyria Theatre in February 2000, at Chelsea Playhouse) Libretto for Before the Curtain Rises New York Theatre Workshop, Just Add Water Festival, 1998 Lyrics for Nothing Forever (New York Theatre Workshop Studio Production, 1996 and HERE, 1999) Lyrics for and co-conception of Ring Around the Rosie for the Parsons Dance Company (produced by Music-Theatre Group at the Joyce Theatre and City Center), 1996 & 1998 Libretto for Light Shall Lift Them (produced by BAM’s Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Majestic Theatre), 1994 Lyrics for Chang & Eng (Harold Prince Musical Theatre Workshop), 1994 Lyrics for The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May (Olney Theatre), 1994
- Lyrics for Akin (produced by Music-Theatre Group and John Kelly at La Mama), 1992