Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey.
He has also won two Tony Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Next to Normal, as well as Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations for If/Then and SpongeBob SquarePants. He has been nominated for eight Drama Desk Awards, winning one, and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Jagged Little Pill in 2021.
From: Photos: Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center Honors Lynn Nottage at the 22nd Monte Cristo Awards
From: Photo Flash: Heidi Blickenstaff and Emma Hunton in FREAKY FRIDAY the Musical at La Jolla Playhouse
Tom Kitt, Almost Famous
Tom Kitt, Almost Famous
Tom Kitt, Flying Over Sunset
Tom Kitt, Flying Over Sunset
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill
Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom KittSpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kitt, Cymbeline
Tom Kitt, If/Then
Tom KittAll's Well That Ends Well
Tom Kitt, The Winter's Tale
Tom Kitt, American Idiot
Tom Kitt, Everyday Rapture
Tom Kitt, American Idiot
Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
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The painful slow journey for understanding as to what normalcy or perceived sanity is --when a family member is suffering from bipolar illness--- is explored with heartbreaking poignancy, almost brutal honesty and with deadpan caustic humor in the musical Next to Normal. Now playing at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, this almost totally sung-through musical caught me up in its oddly satisfying emotional pulse. I fell into its compelling pull as the trauma of a family experiencing the highs and lows of bipolar illness unfolded.
See first look photos! The highly-anticipated groundbreaking, Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical Next to Normal (book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and music by Tom Kitt), opens tonight, January 29, 2024, at Round House Theatre, co-produced with Barrington Stage Company.
Tom Kitt has written 9 shows including High Fidelity (Composer), next to normal (Composer), Bring It On: The Musical (Composer), If/Then (Composer), Superhero (Composer & Lyricist), Almost Famous (Composer & Lyricist), Magic Mike (Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa), The Visitor (Composer), Flying Over Sunset (Music).
Tom Kitt has been nominated for several prestigious awards throughout his career, including Outstanding Music at the Drama Desk Awards for "Almost Famous," Best Original Score at the Tony Awards for both "Almost Famous" and "Flying Over Sunset," Outstanding Orchestrations at the Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Jagged Little Pill," Best Orchestrations at the Tony Awards for "Jagged Little Pill" and "SpongeBob SquarePants," Best Score at the BroadwayWorld Awards for "SpongeBob SquarePants," Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "SpongeBob SquarePants," Outstanding Music in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "Cymbeline," Best Original Score at the Tony Awards for "If/Then," Outstanding Music in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for "All's Well That Ends Well" and "The Winter's Tale," Best Orchestrations at the BroadwayWorld Awards for "American Idiot," Outstanding Orchestrations at the Drama Desk Awards for both "Everyday Rapture" and "American Idiot," The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Next to Normal," and Best Orchestrations at the Tony Awards for "Next to Normal."
Tom Kitt has won several awards, including Outstanding Orchestrations at the Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Jagged Little Pill." He also won Best Score at the BroadwayWorld Awards for "SpongeBob SquarePants" and Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards for the same show. Additionally, Kitt won Best Orchestrations at the BroadwayWorld Awards for "American Idiot," The Pulitzer Prize for Drama for "Next to Normal," Best Orchestrations at the Tony Awards for "Next to Normal," and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre at the Tony Awards for "Next to Normal."
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