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Daniel and Patrick Lazour

Daniel and Patrick Lazour are brothers and music theatre writers. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. It premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in May 2019 directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar. Their album Flap My Wings (Songs from We Live in Cairo) was recorded in quarantine and features the Lazours as well as major activist-songwriters from across the Arab world. Their new musical community project, Night Side Songs, about cancer treatment, patients and caretakers was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and is being developed with the American Repertory Theater and Harvard University. Their movie musical Challenger: An American Dream is about a student of Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe; and they are developing a 60-minute song titled Romulus & Remus.  They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Yaddo and MacDowell. They were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. Most recently, they were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo and are teaching artists at Lincoln Center Theater. They perform their songs live at the Boiler Room in New York City. @frereslazour