Laurence O’Keefe

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laurence O'Keefe
Occupation	Guitarist
Date Of Birth	Jan 2, 1965(1965-01-02)
Age	59
Birthplace	Newcastle upon Tyne
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Laurence O'Keefe Biography

Laurence O'Keefe is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on January 2, 1965 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom. Laurence O’Keefe was born in 1969. He is the third out of the three boys born to editor and writer Daniel O’Keefe and his wife Deborah. The three sons all were writers. Laurence O’Keefe is a graduate of Harvard College (1991), where he studied anthropology. He also wrote humorous pieces in The Harvard Lampoon, and sang with the Harvard Krokodiloes. He began his career in musical theater with the Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals and performed in the Pudding’s drag-burlesques. He also wrote Suede Expectations, book by Mo Rocca, and wrote an libretto for another show, Romancing the Throne.

O’Keefe composed music and lyrics for a range of productions. He wrote the score to Bat Boy: The Musical that ran off-Broadway from March 3 through December 2nd 2001. Bat Boy received eight Drama Desk Award nominations which included Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics. and was awarded Two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and also won the Lucille Lortel Award as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award for the the best Off-Broadway Musical. The musical has been produced by over 500 amateur and regional companies throughout the USA. Bat Boy: The Musical was first performed on the Shaftesbury Theatre on London’s West End on September 8, 2004 and ran through January 15, 2005.

With Benjamin, O’Keefe has written two musicals for Theatreworks USA: Cam Jansen (2004) and Sarah, Plain and Tall (2002).

O’Keefe is active as a writer, teacher and advocate in the Broadway and New York theatre communities. He has served on the Nominating Committee of the Tony Awards. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, where he teaches composition and writing to emerging theater artists as the co-head of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Fellows Program, and conducts master classes for the DGF’s Traveling Fellows Program. Since 2005 O’Keefe has served as the head of the Music Department and Resident Artist for Harvard University’s Freshman Arts Program. He teaches master classes across the country at Harvard, NYU, Berklee College of Music, Yale University and elsewhere.

Bat Boy: The Musical is also being staged at Seoul, South Korea, as well as Tokyo as well as Osaka in Japan as well as in The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. On the 1st of January 2001, O’Keefe won his Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. In 2004, O’Keefe received the Ed Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics. It was a $100,000 prize, which was largely due to Bat Boy. Bat Boy. Two Kleban Awards each year, one for one of the lyricists, and the other goes to writers of books.

Laurence O'Keefe Net Worth

Laurence O'Keefe is one of the richest Guitarist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laurence O'Keefe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Laurence Crawford “Larry” O’Keefe (born 1969) is an American composer and lyricist who has worked on Broadway musicals, films and television. He was awarded in 2001 the Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical as the composer of Bat Boy: The Musical.

The couple of O’Keefe as well as his spouse Nell Benjamin collaborated on a short musical called The Mice. The Mice was performed in the hands of Hal Prince as a part of 3hree, a three-show evening in The Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia in 2000. The show was also performed In Los Angeles in 2001.

In February 2004, O’Keefe guest-conducted the Harvard Pops Orchestra in an evening of his songs, and premiered his short opera The Magic Futon. A repeat performance with the Pops was presented in November 2008.

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O’Keefe and Benjamin wrote an operatic musical, first produced at New York’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in 2012, titled Life of The Party. It was set in the Soviet Union in 1953 and based on true stories. It focused on the artists who labored under harrowing conditions to create Soviet movie musicals, trying to please both Stalin’s regime and the public. The show later received a new workshop at New York University’s Steinhardt School in March 2017.

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Laurence Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Laurence O'Keefe celebrates birthday on January 2 of every year.

They wrote narration and new comic verses for the New York Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve 2015 gala, La Vie Parisienne. This was set to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns’s Carnival Of The Animals, replacing the traditional introductory poems by Ogden Nash, and performed that night by Nathan Lane.