Awards & Winners

Tom Eyen

Date of Birth 14-August-1940
Place of Birth Cambridge
(United States of America, Ohio, Guernsey County, Cambridge Township)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Playwright, Screenwriter, Theatre Director, Lyricist
Tom Eyen was an American playwright, lyricist, television writer and theatre director. Eyen is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum. Mainstream theatergoers became acquainted with him in 1981 when he partnered with composer Henry Krieger and director Michael Bennett to write the book and lyrics for Dreamgirls, the hit Broadway musical about an African American female singing trio. Eyen's career started, however, with avant garde plays and musicals that he wrote and directed off-off Broadway in the early 1960s, which eventually led to off-Broadway success in the 1970s with the controversial nudity-filled performance-art play The Dirtiest Show in Town and Women Behind Bars, a camp parody of women's prison exploitation films.

Awards by Tom Eyen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Tom Eyen.

1982


Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
Honored for : Dreamgirls
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Honored for : Dreamgirls

Nominations 1982 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics Dreamgirls
Tony Award for Best Original Score Dreamgirls
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical Dreamgirls
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album Dreamgirls

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy, Variety, or Music Special Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back