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RUPERT HOLMES is an author, lyricist, composer, and arranger. He was the first person in Broadway history to singly win Tony awards for both Best Book and Best Score of a Musical for his creation The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which also won the Tony award for Best Musical. The Drama Desk awarded him and Drood the identical honors, adding another for Holmes in their additional category of Best Orchestration. His recent Broadway hit Say Goodnight Gracie about the life of George Burns received a 2003 Tony nomination (and the 2004 National Broadway Theatre Award) for Best Play. His Broadway comedy-thriller Accomplice won him the Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" award for Best Play, the second time he's received their highest honor. Holmes also created and wrote the Emmy award-winning TV series Remember WENN. His first novel, Where The Truth Lies is now a motion picture starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in September and opening across the U.S. this October. Just released is his mystery novel-with-music for Random House, Swing, which has already hit the top ten fiction lists of both the San Francisco Chronicle and Amazon. Forthcoming musicals include the books for Marty with Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, Curtains with John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, The Man Who Was Magic with Michel Legrand and Marilyn and Alan Bergman, a new stage musical for New Line Cinema, and his own book and score for The Picture of Dorian Gray. Prior to his career in Theatre, Rupert Holmes was a pop singer-songwriter whose work was recorded by many of the outstanding vocalists of our time, most notably Barbra Streisand, for whom he wrote, arranged and conducted several platinum recordings, including the album Lazy Afternoon and his original songs for the Grammy-winning score of A Star is Born. His pop hits include the chart-topping ballad by the Jets, You Got It All Over Him and his own recordings of Him, The People That You Never Get To Love, and his number one smash in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe: the inescapable Escape (The Pina Colada Song) heard most recently in such movies as Shrek, Bewitched, The Sweetest Thing, American Splendor, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Bio as of September, 2005.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Pop Music and the New Musical - September, 2005 - Watch now.
Playwright and Director - September, 2002 - Watch now.
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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