Howard Ashman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Howard Ashman
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	May 17, 1950(1950-05-17)
Age	74
Date Of Death	1991-03-14
Birthplace	Baltimore
Country	United States
Birth City	Maryland
Horoscope	Taurus

Howard Ashman Biography

Howard Ashman is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on May 17, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Playwright and lyricist in Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Usually with Playwright and lyricist for such Disney films as Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, usually with Alan Menken..

He and Menken also collaborated in the production of Little Shop of Horrors (1982), which was based upon The Little Shop of Horrors (from 1960) and directed by He and Menken also collaborated on the 1982 musical Little Shop of Horrors, which was based on The Little Shop of Horrors from 1960, a low-budget movie directed by Roger Corman..

After graduating from Indiana in 1974 he moved to New York and worked as an editor at Grosset & Dunlap. His first two plays, Cause Maggie’s Afraid of the Dark and Dreamstuff, were met with mixed reviews. His play The Confirmation was produced in 1977 at Princeton’s McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi. In 1977 he became the artistic director of the WPA Theater in New York. He met future collaborator Alan Menken at the BMI Workshop, where he was classmates with Maury Yeston and Ed Kleban, among others. He first worked with Menken on the 1979 musical Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, adapted from Vonnegut’s novel of the same name. They also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with Ashman as director, lyricist, and librettist, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics. He also directed the workshop of Nine by Yeston at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and after asking why Guido’s wife stays with him after she knows he has not been faithful, inspired Yeston to write “My Husband Makes Movies”.

Ashman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley Thelma (née Glass) and Raymond Albert Ashman, an ice cream cone manufacturer. His family was Jewish. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University’s Summer Theater) and then went on to earn his master’s degree from Indiana University in 1974.

After Ashman’s death in 1991, he was awarded an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. His life partner Bill Lauch accepted his award for Aladdin.

Howard Ashman Net Worth

Howard Ashman is one of the richest Playwright from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Howard Ashman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an artistic director at a New York theatre. In 1979, he collaborated for the first time with Menken on God bless you, Mr. Rosewater.

In 2001, he was named a Disney Legend. From 1988, Oliver & Company was his first assignment.

Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright and lyricist. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several works and is most widely known for several animated feature films for Disney, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed the music. Ashman and Menken began their collaboration with the musical God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979), for which Ashman directed and wrote both book and lyrics. Their next musical, Little Shop of Horrors (1982) for which Ashman again directed and wrote both book and lyrics, became a long-running success and led to a 1986 feature film. The partnership’s first Disney film was The Little Mermaid (1989), followed by Beauty and the Beast (1991). After his death, some of Ashman’s songs were included in another Disney film, Aladdin (1992).

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On the 2002 Special Edition DVD of Beauty and the Beast, the Disney animators teamed up again and added a new song called “Human Again”, which Ashman and Menken had written for the film, but was cut from the finished film. On Disc 2, there is a short documentary entitled Howard Ashman: In Memoriam that features many people who worked on Beauty and the Beast who talk about Howard’s involvement on the film and how his death was truly a loss for them.

Facts & Trivia

Howard Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Howard Ashman celebrates birthday on May 17 of every year.

The 2009 documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty, which centers around Disney’s animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney.

How did Howard Ashman pass away?

HIV/AIDS

Is Howard Ashman still alive?

March 14, 1991

Who wrote the music for The Little Mermaid?

Music composed by

Where did Howard Ashman grow up?

Howard Ashman – The Lyricist Howard Elliott Ashman was born in Baltimore, Maryland in May 1950. Growing up in a household full of music, Ashman adored theater, and he decided at an early age that theater would be his lifelong passion.

When was Howard Ashman born?

May 17, 1950