Career
Korie wrote the lyrics for the musical Grey Gardens, which has music by Scott Frankel and a book by Doug Wright, and ran both Off-Broadway and on Broadway. Korie was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award, Best Original Score and the 2006 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Lyrics for his work on Grey Gardens. Korie and Frankel wrote the lyrics and score, with John Weidman writing the book, for the musical Happiness, which premiered Off-Broadway at Lincoln Center's Newhouse Theatre in March 2009.
Korie's works include librettos for the operas Where's Dick? (1989, music by Stewart Wallace), Doll (music by Scott Frankel), Harvey Milk (1995, music by Stewart Wallace), and The Grapes of Wrath (music by Ricky Ian Gordon). He also co-wrote the lyrics with Amy Powers to Doctor Zhivago (music by Lucy Simon), which premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2006.
Korie's other projects were writing the lyrics to a musical adaptation of the 2004 film Finding Neverland and writing the score, with Frankel, for a musical version of Far From Heaven.
Korie grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended Teaneck High School. He is a Lecturer in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama.
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