Edward Kleban
Kleban Foundation

Edward Kleban

Section Title: Kleban Foundation
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YEAR	LYRICIST	LIBRETTIST	JUDGES

2018	Alan Schmuckler / Amanda Yesnowitz (TIE)	Christian Duhamel	Marin Mazzie, Dave Malloy, Laurence Masion

2017	Daniel Zaitchik	Lisa Kron	Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Mary Testa, Ira Weitzman

2016	Stacey Luftig	Daniel Goldstein	Judith Ivey, Michael Price, Andrew Zerman

2015	Sam Willmott	Sam Carner	Kerry Butler, Wiley Hausam, David Shire

2014	Nathan Tysen	Arthur Perlman	Jason Danieley, Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Bill Rosenfield

2013	Daniel Maté	Alan Gordon	Sean Hartley, Henry Krieger, Michele Pawk

2012	Marcy Heisler	Andrew Gerle / Matt Schatz (TIE)	Marshall Brickman, Ted Chapin, Debra Monk

2011	Adam Gwon	Michelle Elliott	Stephen Flaherty, Michael Korie, David Zippel

2010	Peter Mills	Barry Wyner	Craig Carnelia, Susan Drury, Jeffrey Sweet

2009	Beth Falcone	Kait Kerrigan	Sheldon Harnick, Thomas Z. Shepard, Sherman Yellen

2008	David Lindsay-Abaire	Laura Harrington / Bill Solly and Donald Ward (TIE)	Beth Blickers, Linda Kline, Gilbert Parker

2007	Joe Iconis	Jeremy Desmon	Rick Elice, Carol Hall, Charles Kopelman

2006	Alison Louise Hubbard / Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak (TIE)	Laurence Holzman and Felicia Needleman	Cheryl L. Davis, Susan Drury, Ken Stone

2005	David Javerbaum	Cheryl L. David and Ken Stone (TIE)	Julia Jordan, Michael John LaChiusa, Jeffrey Sweet

2004	Laurence O'Keefe	Julia Jordan	Susan DiLallo, Bill Goldstein, Lonnie Price

2003	Nell Benjamin	Susan Dilallo	Arthur Kopit, Charles Leipart, Frank Wildhorn

2002	Jason Robert Brown	Lori McKelvey	Jerome Coopersmith, Marvin Hamlisch, Marsha Norman

2001	John Bucchino and Patrick Cook	Charles Leipart	Nan Knighton, Michael John LaChiusa, Glenn Slater

2000	Marion Adler, Chad Beguelin, Robert Lopez / Jeff Marx and David Spencer (TIE)	Stephen Cole	Fred Ebb, Henry Kriegler, William Russell

1999	Kirsten Childs	Michael John LaChiusa	Lynn Ahrens, John Jiler, John Kander

1998	Sarah Schlesinger	Lissa Levin / Luis Santiero (TIE)	Ellen Fitzhugh, John Morris, John Weidman

1997	Michael Korie	Brian Crawley	Martin Charnin, James Freydberg, David Shire

1996	Glenn Slater	John Weidman	Carol Hall, William Finn, Jonathan Tunick

1995	Mark Waldrop	John Jiler	Sheldon Harnick, Charles Strouse, Wendy Wasserstein

1994	Joe Keenan / Jim Morgan (TIE)	William Strzempek	Susan Birkenhead, Craig Carnelia, Jack Viertel

1993	Barry Kleinbort	Lanie Robertson	Jerry Bock, Betty Comdon, Gretchen Cryer

1992	Craig Carnelia	Lee Adams, Mary Rodgers, Stephen Schwartz

1991	Mark Campbell	Gretchen Cryer	Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, Joseph Stein

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The recent winners of the Kleban prize were Daniel Zaitchik and Lisa Kron in 2017.

final_sentence: The recent winners of the Kleban prize were Daniel Zaitchik and Lisa Kron in 2017.