Kristen Anderson-Lopez

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Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Born New York City, New York
Alma mater Williams College
Occupation Songwriter
Spouse(s) Robert Lopez
Children 2
Awards 2014: Academy Award for Best Original Song

2015: Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

2015: Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Kristen Anderson-Lopez is an American songwriter.[1][2] Anderson-Lopez, along with her husband Robert Lopez and Henry Jackman, wrote and produced music for the 2011 Disney film Winnie the Pooh,[3] for which they were nominated for an Annie Award for Best Music in a Feature Production.[4][5] She also provided the voice of Kanga in the film.[6] Additionally, she wrote songs for a Walt Disney World production of Finding Nemo – The Musical.[7] She and her husband also wrote the songs for Disney's Frozen[8] including "Let It Go", for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards and two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.[2][9]

Anderson-Lopez is also the co-creator of the Drama Desk Award-winning, Broadway-bound musical In Transit, developed at the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference, opened Off Broadway in 2010, and after receiving Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel recognition, was slated for a Broadway production in 2013.[citation needed] She also co-created the romantic stage musical Up Here with her husband and Alex Timbers.[10]

Her work for young audiences includes numerous short and full-length musical adaptations for Theatreworks USA (Diary of a Worm, Fancy Nancy, Condensed Classics). She has written several songs for television and was a staff writer for the award-winning children’s show, Wonder Pets, on Nick Jr.

As of February 2016, Anderson-Lopez is working with her husband on the Disney Theatrical Productions stage musical adaptation of Frozen, with Jennifer Lee writing the book.[11]

Personal life

Anderson-Lopez was raised in three different places: Croton-on-Hudson, New York (a suburb of New York City), to 1986; the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1986 to 1990; and Waxhaw, North Carolina (a suburb of Charlotte), from 1990 onward (which served as her home base during her college years).[12][13] Her parents, Erin and John, still live in Waxhaw.[13][14] According to her father, Anderson-Lopez first fell in love with the theater at the age of four, when he took her to see a U.S. Bicentennial musical tribute staged in their then-hometown of Croton-on-Hudson.[14] After her family moved to North Carolina, she attended and graduated from Charlotte Country Day School.[12] She went on to Williams College in western Massachusetts, where she double-majored in drama and psychology and graduated in 1994.[13][14] After a theater internship in Florida,[13] Anderson-Lopez spent several years working temporary jobs while pursuing her dream of becoming a Broadway theatre performer in New York City.[14] In 1999, she entered the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop[12] and found her true calling as a lyricist, and also met her future husband Robert Lopez.[15]

In October 2003,[16] Anderson married Lopez, who would go on to become an EGOT-winning[17][18] songwriter, composer and lyricist, including three Tony Awards[19][20] for Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon. They have two daughters;[21] Katie and Annie, who both had voice parts in Frozen.[citation needed]

References

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