Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

For the original Broadway production of Ragtime, they won the Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and received two Grammy nominations. The show was revived on Broadway in 2009.

Ahrens and Flaherty were nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for the animated feature film Anastasia, which they subsequently adapted for Broadway.

Collaborators since 1983, their many mutual credits include the Lincoln Center Theater premieres of My Favorite Year, A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical), Dessa Rose and The Glorious Ones.

Additional Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional productions include Once on This Island (Olivier Award, Best Musical; Tony Award, Best Musical Revival; Grammy nomination); Seussical (Grammy nomination); Rocky; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Lucky Stiff; Little Dancer; Knoxville.

In 2014, Ahrens and Flaherty received the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 2015 they were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

Both are Lifetime Council Members of the Dramatists Guild of America and co-founders of the DGF Fellows Program for Emerging Writers.