Ed Dixon
Ed Dixon (born September 2, 1948 in Oklahoma) is an American character actor, playwright and composer.
Actor
Dixon has appeared in numerous
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Sunday in the Park with George, Mary Poppins and Anything Goes. In 1987 he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the musical Shylock, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics.[1]
Dixon was a soloist in the
Kathy Lee Gifford's Saving Aimee and won the 2010 Helen Hayes Award for best supporting actor in a musical for his turn as Max in the Sunset Boulevard, a role he also played in the 1996 US tour. For his creation, Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose off-Broadway, he won the 2017 Drama Desk Award for best solo performance. In 2018, he played Judge Turpin opposite Terrence Mann in the title role of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre
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Playwright & composer
Dixon is the author/composer of Drama Desk Awards and one Drama-Logue Award. Dixon also wrote the musical Richard Cory with noted playwright A. R. Gurney. The musical won the Festival Prize and the Audience Award when it debuted at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.His latest work, Whodunit... The Musical, based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart mystery has gained critical acclaim in regional venues throughout the United States.
Memoirs
Dixon released his memoir SECRETS OF A LIFE ON STAGE... AND OFF on May 3, 2012.
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