Ken Ludwig

Biography

Ken Ludwig (born 1950) is an American, playwright, theatre director, and attorney.

Born in York, Pennsylvania, Ludwig was educated at Haverford College, Harvard Law School, and Trinity College at Cambridge University. His first Broadway play, Lend Me a Tenor (1989), garnered him his first Tony Award nomination; his second was for Best Book of a Musical for Crazy for You (1992), which won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Los Angeles Critics Circle, Helen Hayes, and Laurence Olivier Awards as Best Musical. Other Broadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo (1995) with Carol Burnett, the book for an ill-fated musical adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001), and a new adaptation of the classic Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play Twentieth Century (2004).

Among Ludwig's other works are Shakespeare in Hollywood, which was presented at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in 2003 and won the Helen Hayes Award for Best Play of the Year; Leading Ladies, directed by the playwright at the Alley Theatre in Houston in 2004 and now headed for Broadway; Be My Baby, again at the Alley Theatre, with Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter; and the completion of Thornton Wilder's adaptation of George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Beaux’ Stratagem, staged at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C in 2006.

Ludwig's latest projects are an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, scheduled to premiere at the Alley Theatre in April 2007, and a stage adaptation of the George and Ira Gershwin film An American in Paris, currently a work-in-progress.

Ludwig practiced law for several years with the firm of Steptoe & Johnson, where he remains Of Counsel. He has lectured on drama at universities throughout the country.

Ludwig, his wife Adrienne George, and their children Olivia and Jack reside in Washington, D.C.

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