Name	Andrew Lippa
Height
Naionality	Amarican
Date of Birth	1965
Place of Birth	USA
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Lippa was born in Leeds, England.[1] He attended Oak Park High School in Oak Park, Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan,[2] Lippa began work in New York in 1987 as a middle school teacher and administrator at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School. He then began to pursue a music career.
[edit] Career

In 1998, Lippa was commissioned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver to create an anthem for a concert celebrating Israel's 50th birthday, to be sung by 350 singers and conducted by Sergiu Comissiona of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

In 1999, Lippa contributed two new songs to the Broadway version of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (including "My New Philosophy" for Kristin Chenoweth), and created all new arrangements. He wrote the music and co-wrote the book (with Tom Greenwald) for john & jen, which ran Off-Broadway in 1995 at the Lamb's Theater.

Lippa wrote the book, music and lyrics for The Wild Party, which was given its world premiere in 2000 at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City. The Wild Party won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best Off-Broadway musical of the season and Lippa won the 2000 Drama Desk Award for best music. The show was nominated for 13 Drama Desk Awards including best new musical.

Lippa's A Little Princess premiered in the summer of 2004 at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California. The play's book and lyrics are by Brian Crawley.

As a singer, Lippa has performed at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, The Rainbow Room, and The Supper Club. His vocal arrangements and singing can be heard on the songs of Stephen Schwartz in the animated feature, The Prince of Egypt.

He has acted as Kristin Chenoweth's music director since 1999[3] and has conducted and played Chenoweth's concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House (January 2007), the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (2005), Carnegie Hall (2004), and the Donmar Warehouse (2002), among others. Lippa wrote the music to the "Intervention Song" for Chenoweth's funnyordie.com video.

Lippa worked with the American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University to produce his musical Asphalt Beach. Amanda Dehnert is the director and Tom Smith and Peter Spears wrote the book. The show ran from October 27 to November 12, 2006.

He wrote the original music for Aaron Sorkin's 2007 Broadway play, The Farnsworth Invention.

His project The Man In The Ceiling is being produced by Disney Theatrical. Pulitzer Prize winner Jules Feiffer is writing the book for the musical.

Lippa is writing and developing the music and lyrics for the upcoming musical The Addams Family, which is based on the The Addams Family comics by Charles Addams.[4]

Lippa is a member of ASCAP, is on the council of the Dramatists Guild, and Actors' Equity Association.