Press - Ordinary Days

ORDINARY DAYS
West Coast Premiere
music and lyrics by Adam Gwon
January 3 - 24, 2010
Julianne Argyros Stage

A promising star plucked from the new breed of composers in America, Adam Gwon is the latest winner of the Fred Ebb Award for Excellence in Musical Theater Songwriting. With Ordinary Days he hit the boards running in the USA and the UK, causing critics to sit up and take notice of its spare, fast-paced and lyrical form. From the bustling streets to the quiet rooftops, four young New Yorkers trying to find their way become intricately connected through a series of funny and fortuitous events that prove ordinary days can be simply extraordinary.

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Nancy Anderson and David Burnham in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Nick Gabriel and David Burnham in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Dennis Castellano and Deborah S. Craig in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Deborah S. Craig and Nick Gabriel in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Nancy Anderson and David Burnham in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Deborah S. Craig and Nick Gabriel in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.		Nancy Anderson and David Burnham in Adam's Gwon's musical Ordinary Days, Jan 3-24 at South Coast Repertory.  Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR.

Composer and Lyricist Adam Gwon. Photo courtesy of South Coast Repertory.

Playwright Bio

Adam Gwon is a rising musical theater writer named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine and who has been hailed "an extremely talented composer and lyricist" who "is seriously going places." (The New York Sun, StageSpace.com). His musical Ordinary Days will also be produced in the 2009-10 season at Roundabout Theatre Company, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and Human Race Theatre Company. Ordinary Days was previously produced at Pennsylvania Centre Stage, the Finborough Theatre in London, and at universities across the country, and was selected for the 2008 NAMT Festival of New Musicals. His other shows include Bernice Bobs Her Hair (with librettist Julia Jordan), and Ethan Frome. His work has been seen and developed at Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages, the York Theatre, Ars Nova, the Kennedy Center, New Dramatists, NAMT, NYMF, the Johnny Mercer Foundation/American Music Theatre Project, Symphony Space, the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the Flea Theater, and many others. His song "Running" was nominated for a 2009 MAC Award. He's currently at work on commissions from Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (as part of its American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation), South Coast Repertory, and Broadway Across America. Mr. Gwon has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, a musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and an artist-in-residence at Weston Playhouse. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.