Rupert Holmes

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With The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which received the 1986 Tony® award for Best Musical, Rupert Holmes also became the first person in Broadway history to solely win Tony® awards as author, lyricist and composer. Holmes and Edwin Drood received identical honors from the New York Drama Desk, with Holmes receiving a fourth award in their additional category of Best Orchestration. His most recent musical Curtains (in collaboration with the legendary songwriting team of Kander and Ebb) earned him the Drama Desk award for Best Book of a Musical, as well as Tony nominations for both Best Book and Best Additional Lyrics. For Say Goodnight, Gracie, he received a Tony nomination and won the National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Play. His comedy-thriller Accomplice won him the second of his two Edgar awards from The Mystery Writers of America. His courtroom drama A Time to Kill (the first stage adaptation of a John Grisham novel) was seen at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and is slated for Broadway in 2013. Holmes also created, wrote and scored all four seasons of AMC’s critically-acclaimed TV series Remember WENN. His first novel Where the Truth Lies was nominated for both a Nero Wolfe Award and Booklist Award for Best American Mystery Novel, and was adapted into a motion picture by Atom Egoyan, starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. His forthcoming novel from Simon and Schuster is the first in a series: The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Murder Your Employer. Prior to Edwin Drood, Holmes was a pop singer-songwriter who wrote, arranged and conducted platinum recordings for Barbra Streisand, including the album Lazy Afternoon and songs for the Golden Globe-winning score of A Star is Born, and who wrote and recorded several Billboard “Top Ten” hits of his own.

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