Steven Levenson

Writing

Biography

Steven Levenson (born May 1984) is a Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and television writer and producer. His plays include If I Forget, Core Values, Seven Minutes In Heaven, and The Language of Trees. He wrote the book for the musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which won six Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Musical, as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. He co-created and executive produced the FX series Fosse/Verdon, which was nominated for seventeen Emmy Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, as well as for Critics’ Choice Association and Producers Guild Awards, in addition to winning the Writers Guild Award and an AFI Award for Outstanding Series. Other honors include the OBIE Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. He adapted Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for Netflix. He is a graduate of Brown University.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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tick, tick... BOOM!

7.6(2.3K)

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

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tick, tick... BOOM!

Aspiring Composers and Lyricists

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Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall

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Backed by a full band and a ready wit, actor Ben Platt opens up a very personal songbook onstage -- numbers from his debut LP, "Sing to Me Instead."

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Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall

Self

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Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!

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Go deep inside the film tick, tick...BOOM! with director Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor Andrew Garfield and the rest of the film's acclaimed ensemble. The award-winning biopic tells the story of the late Tony Award®-winning legend Jonathan Larson, an artist at a crossroads desperate to tell his story.

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Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!

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Production

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Dear Evan Hansen

6.3(0.4K)

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

If I Forget

10.0(0.0K)

A play about the stories we choose to believe, the compromises we can't avoid and the hurt only our nearest and dearest can inflict. In the final months before 9/11, a liberal professor has reunited with his two sisters to celebrate their father's 75th birthday. Each having their own version of family history, the siblings clash over everything. Destructive secrets and long-held resentments surface as the three negotiate—with biting humor and razor-sharp insight—how much of the past they’re willing to sacrifice for a chance at a new beginning.

tick, tick... BOOM!

7.6(2.3K)

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Fiddler on the Roof

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In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.

Snow White

4.3(1.6K)

Following the benevolent King's disappearance, the Evil Queen dominated the once fair land with a cruel streak. Princess Snow White flees the castle when the Queen, in her jealousy over Snow White's inner beauty, tries to kill her. Deep into the dark woods, she stumbles upon seven magical dwarves and a young bandit named Jonathan. Together, they strive to survive the Queen's relentless pursuit and aspire to take back the kingdom.