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ROBERT LEE (words) is a lyricist and librettist whose original musicals with Leon Ko include Heading East, Chinese Hell and an adaptation of Jean Kerr’s Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. Their musical Takeaway opened in 2011 at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East and was the first major musical production in the UK to deal with the British East Asian experience. Robert is an alumnus of Princeton University and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he is a member of the faculty. He is a visiting professor at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, and with composer Fred Carl developed and led Stratford East's Musical Theatre Writing Workshop for 18 years under Artistic Directors Philip Hedley and Kerry Michael, serving as one of the theatre's Artistic Associates and a member of its Musical Theatre Advisory Board. (The Workshop is the subject of the film Rappin' at the Royal, Blast Films, 2005.) More recently, he created Alice Chan, a play for young audiences written with BD Wong for La Jolla Playhouse, as well as the songs for the film Love is a Broadway Hit, with music by Ko.

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LEON KO (music) received his Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His musical Heading East (with book and lyrics by Robert Lee) won the 2001 Richard Rodgers Development Award. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall and on the Public Broadcasting Service in the US. He has won eight Hong Kong Theatre Awards for his music for his Cantonese musicals, including The Good Person of Szechwan, Field of Dreams and The Passage Beyond. In 2010, he wrote music for the play The Liaisons for the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Fredric Mao Theatre Project, which was presented at the Expo 2010 Shanghai. For his work on the film Perhaps Love (2005), he received a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan, a Hong Kong Film Award, an Asia-­Pacific Film Festival Award and a Golden Bauhinia Award. Other Hong Kong Film Award honors include a nomination for Best Original Score in 2008 (for his contributions to the movie The Warlords), and an award for Best Original Song for the title song to The Last Tycoon (2012). Other film scores include Mr. Cinema, The Great Magician, Dearest and Monster Hunt.
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ROBERT LEE (words) is a lyricist and librettist whose original musicals with Leon Ko include Heading East, Chinese Hell and an adaptation of Jean Kerr’s Please Don’t Eat the Daisies. Their musical Takeaway opened in 2011 at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East and was the first major musical production in the UK to deal with the British East Asian experience. Robert is an alumnus of Princeton University and the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he is a member of the faculty. He is a visiting professor at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, and with composer Fred Carl developed and led Stratford East's Musical Theatre Writing Workshop for 18 years under Artistic Directors Philip Hedley and Kerry Michael, serving as one of the theatre's Artistic Associates and a member of its Musical Theatre Advisory Board. (The Workshop is the subject of the film Rappin' at the Royal, Blast Films, 2005.) More recently, he created Alice Chan, a play for young audiences written with BD Wong for La Jolla Playhouse, as well as the songs for the film Love is a Broadway Hit, with music by Ko.
Photo: Lia Chang
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LEON KO (music) received his Master’s degree in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His musical Heading East (with book and lyrics by Robert Lee) won the 2001 Richard Rodgers Development Award. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall and on the Public Broadcasting Service in the US. He has won eight Hong Kong Theatre Awards for his music for his Cantonese musicals, including The Good Person of Szechwan, Field of Dreams and The Passage Beyond. In 2010, he wrote music for the play The Liaisons for the Hong Kong Arts Festival and Fredric Mao Theatre Project, which was presented at the Expo 2010 Shanghai. For his work on the film Perhaps Love (2005), he received a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan, a Hong Kong Film Award, an Asia-­Pacific Film Festival Award and a Golden Bauhinia Award. Other Hong Kong Film Award honors include a nomination for Best Original Score in 2008 (for his contributions to the movie The Warlords), and an award for Best Original Song for the title song to The Last Tycoon (2012). Other film scores include Mr. Cinema, The Great Magician, Dearest and Monster Hunt.