JASON ROBERT BROWN (Music and Lyrics) makes his Broadway debut as a composer with Parade. Jason's first musical, Songs for a New World, directed by Daisy Prince, debuted Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in October 1995, and was subsequently recorded by RCA Victor. 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); 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. Jason thanks his extraordinary family for their love and support, and dedicates his work on Parade to Irving Brown and to the memory of Jack Hollday.

JASON ROBERT BROWN (Original Music) 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 Theater in December 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Best New Musical. Jason's first musical, Songs for a New World, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in the fall of 1995. Both shows were recorded for RCA Victor. Jason is also writing a dance-musical, The Moneyman. For his work on Moneyman and New World, Jason was awarded the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Two of Jason's songs were included on Audra McDonald's debut album, Way Back to Paradise. Jason's other current projects include a two-character musical commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, and a solo album. As a conductor and arranger, Jason's recent credits include Oliver Goldstick's play, Dinah Was, directed by David Petrarca; and William Finn's A New Brain, directed by Graciela Daniele, at Lincoln Center Theater. Jason is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

JASON ROBERT BROWN 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. Brown recently conducted Parade on a national tour. He began his collaboration with Northlight in 1999 as music director of Dinah Was, a co-production with Dallas Theatre Center and Arena Stage. 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. As a conductor/arranger, his recent New York credits are William Finn's A New Brain at Lincoln Center Theatre and Oliver Goldstick's Dinah Was, directed by David Petrarca, at the Gramercy Theater. He composed incidental music for David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers, Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery and Irish Repertory Theater's Long Day's Journey Into Night. He was musical director of the vocal group The Tonics, conductor and orchestrator of Yoko Ono's musical New York Rock at the WPA Theatre, conductor and arranger of Michael John LaChiusa's The Petrified Prince, directed by Harold Prince, at the Public, and he orchestrated Andrew Lippa's john and jen at Lamb's Theatre. He has conducted and created arrangements for Liza Minelli, Tovah Feldshuh and Laurie Beechman. 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.