🎭 Writing
Jonathan Larson
Lived · 35
Born · Feb 4, 1960
From · Mount Vernon, New York, USA
Films · 4
🎭 Writing
Biography
Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for the serious social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia explored in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works, Rent and tick, tick... BOOM!. He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock opera Rent.
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