Sam Norman

Sam Norman is an award-winning – but mostly award-losing – librettist and lyricist for musicals and operas. His work has been called “well-paced and keenly sharpened” (The Washington Post), “delightfully funny” (Buzzfeed), and “witty, hilarious and completely delightful” (The Huffington Post). Recent projects include COME DINE WITH ME: THE MUSICAL (UK tour), ECHOLOCATION (Stiles & Drewe Mentorship Prize 2025), THE SHADOW (Symphony Space) and HAIRPIECE (Kennedy Center). He is a resident artist at the American Lyric Theater and member of the Experiments in Opera Writers’ Room 4.0, as well as a Johnny Mercer Foundation Songwriter, an American Opera Initiative Fellow, a winner of the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation, a Broadway Future Songbook writer, a four-time finalist for the Stiles & Drewe Best New Song Prize. His screenplay GAMESTOP won the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Fellowship 2024, and his book of comic poems, A Teen’s Guide to Modern Manners, was published by Little, Brown. Sam is a proud member of Mercury Musical Developments, the Dramatists Guild and the BMI Librettists Workshop. BA, Oxford University; MFA, New York University. www.samuelnorman.com