Adam Gwon

Adam Gwon’s musicals have been produced on six continents in more than ten languages. 

His off-Broadway work includes All the World’s a Stage (Keen Company—Drama Desk nomination, Off-Broadway Alliance Award winner, Best Musical), Scotland, PA (Roundabout Theatre—Drama Desk nomination, NYT Critic’s Pick), Ordinary Days (Roundabout Theatre, Keen Company revival—Drama League nomination), Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside Theatre—NYT Critic’s Pick). 

His regional work consists of Witnesses (California Center for the Arts—Craig Noel Award, Outstanding New Musical), String (Village Theatre), Cake Off (Signature Theatre—Helen Hayes nomination, Bucks County Playhouse), Cloudlands (South Coast Rep), The Boy Detective Fails (Signature Theatre), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma); West End: Ordinary Days (Trafalgar Studios). 

Gwon has received several honors: The Kleban, Ebb, Loewe, and Rodgers Awards; Second Stage Theatre's Donna Perret Rosen Award; Weston Playhouse New Musical Award; ASCAP Harold Adamson Award; and MAC John Wallowitch Award. 

His recordings include All the World’s a Stage (Joy Machine Records), Ordinary Days (Ghostlight Records), String (Brainstorm Records), Audra McDonald's Go Back Home (Nonesuch), Artists in Residence (Broadway Records), The Essential Liz Callaway (Working Girl Records), and Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Album (Over the Moon).