Louis Rosen

LOUIS ROSEN was awarded a 2005-2006 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Music Composition. He is the composer and co-librettist of the musical theater pieces BOOK OF THE NIGHT, (Goodman Theatre, Chicago), and A CHILD'S GARDEN, (Melting Pot Theatre, off-Broadway); and song cycles including TWELVE SONGS, on poems by Maya Angelou; SOUTH SIDE STORIES, for which he wrote music and lyrics; DREAM SUITE: Songs in Jazz and Blues, on poems by Langston Hughes; and IT IS STILL DARK: SONGS OF EXILE, on words by Celso Gonzalez-Falla. He is also the author of "THE SOUTH SIDE: THE RACIAL TRANSFORMATION OF AN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD," published by Ivan R. Dee. Inc., Chicago, in hardcover and cloth; and the composer of the forthcoming musical adaptation of the THE PEARL, based on John Steinbeck's novella, to be directed by Doug Hughes.

   Other awards include the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Award; an NEA New American Works grant; the Sloan Foundation's Grand Galileo Prize; a 2006 Puffin Foundation Award; a generous grant from the Anna Sosenko Trust; and numerous ASCAP awards.