Jason Howland
Jason Howland is a musical theatre composer, playwright, conductor, music director, and producer. In 2015, he won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for his work producing the cast recording of "". He also wrote the music for the Broadway musical "Little Women". Biography. Howland was born June 16, 1971, in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts ("Little Women" is set in New England). He attended Berkshire Ensemble for the Theatre Arts when he was a teenager (a camp where you write musicals). While at Williams College, he was called to be an intern on  the 1992 Vivian Matalon workshop of "Jekyll & Hyde" and worked his way up, becoming friendly with both composer Frank Wildhorn and arranger James Raitt, and eventually became the music director and conductor of the 1997 Broadway production. In 2002, Howland wrote a play with Larry Pellegrini called "Blessing in Disguise" which premiered Off-Broadway. His assorted credits include musical director for , music supervisor for "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Civil War", music director of "Les Misérables", music director of "Taboo", and supervising music director/incidental & dance music arrangements/vocal music arrangements of "Wonderland". He also produced "The Lonesome West" with  Davis. He was the producer of "Little Women" with Dani Davis. The original songwriters were released, and Howland stepped down from producing to write the music with lyrics by Mindi Dickstein with a book by Allan Knee. He has also appeared as a guest conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Maine State Symphony, and Memphis Symphony Orchestra. He also has conducted for Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Brandy, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Carl Anderson, Linda Eder, Sebastian Bach, David Hasselhoff, Rob Evan, Kate Shindle, Lauren Kennedy, Davis Gaines, the Kingston Trio, and Lizz Wright . His other works include writing the score for "Handel’s Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise" and writing the score for the webisode series "The Broadroom". He also was working on two new musicals, "Mariel" and "Quickstep".