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he director of the Musical Theater Writers Workshop is

Richard Simson. He holds a B.A. in Music and Psychology from
Queens College, CUNY. He studied musical theater writing with
Lehman Engel as a member of his Composer/Lyricist and Librettist
workshops, and with Charles Strouse. He was a participant in the
ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop and was a founding member of
Bruce Peyton's Musical Theatre Playwright's Unit.

Voices of Experience

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* Quotations in Voices of Experience are from personal communications and from: Oscar Hammerstein II,
Lyrics, Simon & Schuster, New York 1949; Edward Kennedy Ellington, Music Is My Mistress, Doubleday, New
York 1973; Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, Notes on Broadway, Simon & Schuster, New York 1987; Thomas
S. Hischak, Word Crazy, Praeger, New York 1991; Deena Rosenberg, Fascinating Rhythm, Lime Tree,
London 1991; William Zinsser, Easy to Remember, David R. Godine, New York 2000.