Awards & Winners

Will Holt

Date of Birth 30-April-1929
Place of Birth Portland
(United States of America, Cumberland County, Maine)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Holt, Will
Profession Songwriter, Lyricist, Librettist, Singer
Will Holt is an American singer, songwriter, librettist and lyricist known first and primarily as a folk performer during the 1950s and 1960s and as an interpreter of the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht in performances and recordings with Martha Schlamme. Holt also made significant contributions to Broadway theatre during the 1970s. Born in Portland, Maine, Holt made his Broadway debut in 1969 with "Come Summer", He enjoyed great success with "The Me Nobody Knows", which opened the following year and won him the Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Musical Writer and a Tony nomination for Best Lyrics. In 1974, Holt wrote the book for the musical Over Here! starring the Andrews Sisters, with a song score supplied by the Sherman Brothers, it was a nostalgic look at the home front during World War II. With Linda Hopkins, he conceived and wrote "Me and Bessie", a 1975 revue about the life and career of blues singer Bessie Smith. In 1976, he collaborated with George Abbott and Richard Adler on "Music Is", an adaptation of the Shakespeare play "Twelfth Night" "Platinum", a 1978 musical starring Alexis Smith as a 1940s-50s film star attempting a comeback as a rock singer. His last Broadway project was the 1979 revival of A Kurt Weill Cabaret, for which he performed, as well as translating some of the lyrics. In 1988 he won the Los Angeles Dramalogue Critics Award for "A Walk on the Wild Side", for which he wrote book, music and lyrics.

Awards by Will Holt

Check all the awards nominated and won by Will Holt.

1984


Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score
Honored for : Taking My Turn

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score Taking My Turn

1971


Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Original Score The Me Nobody Knows

1970


Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Musical Writer
Honored for : The Me Nobody Knows
Obie Award for Best Musical
Honored for : The Me Nobody Knows

Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Most Promising Musical Writer The Me Nobody Knows