Mark Hollmann (born 1963) is an American

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and lyricist.

Life and career

Hollmann grew up in Fairview Heights, Illinois, where he graduated from Belleville Township High School East in 1981. He won a 2002

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and a 2001

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for his music and lyrics to '' Urinetown''. He is a former ensemble member of the Cardiff-Giant Theatre Company in

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. He played trombone for the Chicago

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band Maestro Subgum and the Whole, and piano for The Second City national touring company and Chicago City Limits, an improv company in

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. He attended the

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writing workshop Making Tuners at Theatre Building Chicago and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York. While at the Making Turners workshop he began a show with Chicago-based writer Jack Helbig that became "The Girl, the Grouch, and the Goat," which has had professional productions in Los Angeles and Chicago. Hollmann is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and ASCAP. He lives in

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with his wife, Jillian, and their sons. He currently is working on a new musical with his theatrical partner Greg Kotis titled '' Good Luck In Space'', meant to close off the “Urinetown Trilogy” with '' Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life)'' being the first installment.

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* Living people American musical theatre composers American male musical theatre composers American musical theatre lyricists Broadway composers and lyricists Tony Award winners Obie Award recipients People from Belleville, Illinois Songwriters from Illinois Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-dramatist-stub