Lewis Flinn

EnTrance Theatre Talk

Lewis Flinn is the composer and lyricist of the Broadway musical Lysistrata Jones (with a book by Douglas Carter Beane). Other current projects with Beane include the Broadway bound Hood which debuted at the Dallas Theater Center and won Best Musical 0f Dallas 2017, and a musical version of Beane’s hit film, To Wong Foo. Flinn has composed scores and songs for over 50 Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions including TONY nominated The Little Dog Laughed, Charles Busch’s Off-Broadway Die Mommie Die, The Divine Sister, The Tribute Artist (Drama Desk nom for Best Music) and The Third Story. Other theaters where he has worked included Playwright’s Horizons, Manhattan Class Company, South Coast Rep, The Geffen Playhouse, The Cleveland Play House, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theater, 2nd Stage Theater, and the Drama Dept. He has been a guest artist at Cornell, Dartmouth, The Boston Conservatory, The Royal Academy of Arts - London, and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.