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Justin Levine
BIO
Justin Levine received an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical and a Grammy Award nomination as a co-producer of the show’s cast album. His recent credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Delacorte, Drama Desk nomination), Vevo X Lorde: “Melodrama” (Electric Lady Studios), Contemporary Color (David Byrne, Barclays Center), The Outsiders (Goodman Theater), Here Lies Love (Public Theater, National Theatre, Seattle Rep, MASS MoCA), The Weight of Smoke (Paul Taylor/Doug Elkins, Lincoln Center), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway/Public Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Delacorte), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout), Murder Ballad (MTC/Union Square).
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Date:
06/17/2024
From: Photos: Go Behind the Scenes of the 2024 Tony Awards
Date:
05/03/2024
From: Photos: Behind the Scenes
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Tigers Today – Alumni Interview with Justin Levine
In a recent interview, we had the pleasure of speaking with Justin Levine, a composer, arranger, music supervisor and performer who went to Northport High School. He has found success working on shows like Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Here Lies Love, and The Outsiders. We were able to ask about his time in high school, his experiences since then, and his advice for high school students in Northport High School today.
How was the experience of doing Powdered Wigs and Theater Troupe at NHS? Do you think it helped you later in life?
I definitely loved it and it did help me, I think in a lot of ways. Particularly if you’re interested in going into the arts, it was a great opportunity to begin collaborating with people at that age and have the chance to perform in front of an audience and learn how to feed off of that energy. And also how to be disciplined with what you’re doing, learning your lines, but then also, just building a production with a group of your peers. It was definitely a huge learning experience. And I think one of the big things I learned once I started working professionally in theater was that, in many ways it, it was quite similar, it’s just a different context, but as
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