Grammy-nominated artist Rona Siddiqui is a composer/lyricist based in NYC. She is a recipient of the prestigious Kleban Prize for lyric writing, Jonathan Larson Grant and Billie Burke Ziegfeld award. Her show THE BROWN MUSICAL: A New Brown Musical (formerly Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan), an autobiographical comedy about growing up bi-ethnic in America, has had a concert at 54 Below and development at Playwrights Horizons (dir. by Raja Feather Kelly). Other musicals include Father Time (co-created by Bryce Pinkham, Zack Fine & Kirya Traber), Expect Victory (book & co-lyrics by Kris Dias), Rattle the Cage (book by Lynn Rosen and Pia Wilson), and Hip Hop Cinderella. She is the recipient of the ASCAP Harold Adamson Lyric Award, the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and ASCAP Foundation/Max Dreyfus Scholarship. She has performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and Late Night with Seth Meyers. Residencies: Musical Theatre Factory’s Makers Residency, Ars Nova’s Vision Residency. Music Direction: Broadway: A Strange Loop (Obie Winner and Grammy nominee). Off Broadway: Bella: An American Tall Tale, Who’s Your Baghdaddy. Orchestration: Monsoon Wedding, An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake, numerous albums – Broadway Records, Broadway Backwards. Faculty member: BerkleeNYC, New York University. Masters from NYU’s GMTWP.