Lawrence Thelen’s
comedy Pie in the Sky premiered
onstage at the Victory Theatre in Los Angeles where it was an L.A.
Times Critics Choice production. The piece was subsequently made into a
multiple award-winning independent feature film starring K Callan and Laurie
O’Brien. Other works include the comedies Higgins
in Harlem (Playhouse on Park), and Eating
Rhode Island (Edinburgh Festival
Fringe), both of which are published by Dramatic
Publishing; the musical Star of Freedom (Ivoryton Playhouse); the Noël Coward musical comedy
Mad Dogs and Englishmen; and the WWI Christmas Day truce musical Khaki Chums. His one-man comic play Ichabod Crane Tells All is featured in
the anthologies Best American Short Plays
(2011-2012) and Best
Monologues from Best American Short Plays (both published by Applause). His comic opera Pyramus and Thisbe premiered in New York at the 92nd Street Y, and his musical The
Third Wave premiered at the Columbia Entertainment Company where it
received the Jackie White Memorial Playwriting
Award. In addition to numerous articles on the musical theatre, he is
the author of the book The Show Makers:
Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre (published by Routledge).
He is the former literary manager and producing associate for Goodspeed Musicals and was most recently the playwright-in-residence
at the Ivoryton Playhouse.
