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Huang is a playwright and librettist whose work includes Mother of Exiles, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025
The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/librettist. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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librettist
noun
li·bret·tist
lə-ˈbret-əst 
: the writer of a libretto
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