JASON ROBERT BROWN (Music and Lyrics) is the Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of Parade, a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1998 and won the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best New Musical. His first musical, Songs for a New World, directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in fall 1995, and has since been seen in more than 50 productions around the US. For his work on that show and others in progress, Jason was given the 1996 Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theatre Award. Two of Jason's songs were included on Audra McDonald's album, Way Back to Paradise.

As arranger: William Finn's A New Brain (Lincoln Center Theater); Dinah Was (Gramercy Theatre); Paul Robeson: All-American (Theatreworks USA); David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers; Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery; Irish Repertory Theater's Long Day's Journey Into Night; Tovah Feldshuh; Laurie Beechman; and Liza Minnelli. As orchestrator: Andrew Lippa's John and Jen (Lamb's Theatre); Yoko Ono's New York Rock (WPA); Love's Fire (The Acting Company); Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. As musical director: Michael John LaChiusa's The Petrified Prince (Public); When Pigs Fly.

He is at work on a new dance-musical, The Moneyman, and a new solo album. Brown was born in 1970 in Tarrytown, NY, and he studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He resides in New York City and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.