Ken Ludwig Biography

Ken Ludwig is a two-time Tony Award nominee and recipient of the coveted Laurence Olivier Award. He is the author of Lend Me A Tenor, which has proved to one of the most popular comedies of the past decade and has received more than 200 productions worldwide. It ran for more than a year each on Broadway and in London and Paris. In London, it was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and was nominated for the Olivier Award as comedy of the year. On Broadway, it was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including best play, and won two Tonys, four Drama Desk Awards and three Outer Critics Circle Awards. It has been translated into 16 languages and produced in more than 25 countries around the world. Ken also wrote the screenplay ofLend Me A Tenor for Columbia Pictures.

Another of his plays, Sullivan & Gilbert, played at the Bluma Appel Theatre at the St Lawrence Centre in 1988. It was co-produced by the National Arts Centre of Canada and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and was voted best play of 1988 by the Ottawa critics. His other plays include Postmortem and Divine Fire. For television, Ken co-wrote the 1990 Kennedy Centre Honors for CBS (Emmy Award nomination) and a pilot for Carol Channing.

Ken's play Moon Over Buffalo opened successfully in 1995 at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway, and starred Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco.

He is also a practicing lawyer, specializing in International Law, with the firm of Stoptoe & Johnson, LLP