Age: 42
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Steven Levenson (born May 1984) is a Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and television writer and producer. His plays include If I Forget, Core Values, Seven Minutes In Heaven, and The Language of Trees. He wrote the book for the musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which won six Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Musical, as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. He co-created and executive produced the FX series Fosse/Verdon, which was nominated for seventeen Emmy Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, as well as for Critics’ Choice Association and Producers Guild Awards, in addition to winning the Writers Guild Award and an AFI Award for Outstanding Series. Other honors include the OBIE Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. He adapted Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…boom!, directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for Netflix. He is a graduate of Brown University.
Steven Levenson
Writer
for Writer in Dear Evan Hansen: You Will Be Found
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Evan Hansen, a high school teenager dealing with the issues of his anxiety, as well as dealing with a broken hand, is assigned by his therapist to write himself a few letters starting with "Dear Evan Hansen: Today is going to be an amazing day and here's why." But a moment he meets a troubled kid named Connor Murphy who sees the letter by accident and shoves Evan to the floor, thinking that Evan is thinking of Connor's sister in a. . . . provocative way. But later, Connor takes his own life and that deals on a heavy toll on everyone at school, including Evan and Connor's family. After Connor's parents find the letter they think Connor wrote it to Evan, they want to find out if he was friends with him. Not knowing what to do, Evan starts to sympathize with the Murphy's and starts coming up with lies that he knew Connor so well as best friends. Soon, everyone starts to sympathize for both Connor and Evan. Soon, nearly everyone that Evan loves closely as friends and family start to realize that he's been lying about his friendship with Connor, and now Evan has to deal with the heavy guilt that he has done just for wanting to find a chance to belong.
