Steven Levenson is a Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and television writer and producer, whose 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 received nominations for the Writers Guild Award and the Humanitas Prize for his screenplay of tick, tick…BOOM!, which won an AFI Award as one of the top ten Movies of the Year, and was nominated for Golden Globe, Critics Choice Association, and Producers Guild Awards. He co-created and executive produced the Hulu original musical series, Up Here, and co-created and executive produced the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon, which was nominated for seventeen Emmy Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries, in addition to winning the WGA 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. An anthology of his work has been published by TCG. He is a graduate of Brown University and a member of the Dramatists Guild and Writers Guild of America.
