Author, composer and director, educated at Northwestern University (BA,
cum laude, and MA, summa cum laude), and at the Cleveland School of Art
and the Mannes School of Music. He was an assistant director of the
Broadway musicals "Gypsy" and "West Side Story", and he also directed
other Broadway and off-Broadway musicals and plays, and films and
television shows. He wrote the Broadway stage score for "A Time for
Singing", co-wrote its libretto, and directed it. Joining ASCAP in
1965, his chief musical collaborator was John Morris.
Has served as the Dean of Drama at the North Carolina
School of the Arts, where he is currently directing the all-school
production of West Side Story.