Stephen Flaherty

Stephen Flaherty (Music) has enjoyed a musical partnership with lyricist/bookwriter Lynn Ahrens since 1983. They are considered the foremost theatrical songwriting team of their generation.

For Broadway’s Ragtime they won the Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. They wrote the song score for Twentieth Century Fox’s animated feature film Anastasia, earning two Academy Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, and also adapted Anastasia theatrically for Broadway and internationally. Their many additional stage credits include Broadway’s Once On This Island (2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical; Tony nominations for  Best Score and Book); Seussical (one of the most produced shows in America; Drama Desk nomination for Music); Rocky; Ragtime (Broadway premiere and 2009 revival); Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Lincoln Center Theater’s My Favorite Year, A Man of No Importance (Best Off-Broadway Musical, Outer Critics Circle), Dessa Rose and The Glorious Ones (Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Music for the latter three); Lucky Stiff; and two upcoming musicals, Knoxville and Marie. Their mutual honors include the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement, London’s Olivier Award and four Grammy nominations. In 2015 they were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Ahrens and Flaherty are Council members of the Dramatists Guild of America and proud co-founders of the DGF Fellows Program for Emerging Writers.  

Individually, Mr. Flaherty composed the score for the dance musical In Your Arms (Old Globe), the musical Loving Repeating (Jefferson Award, Best New Musical) and incidental music for Neil Simon's Proposals (Broadway.) Film credits include Lucky Stiff, After The Storm and others.  His concert music has premiered at the Hollywood Bowl, Boston's Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim. www.ahrensandflaherty.com