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Robert Lopez

Book, Music and Lyrics

ROBERT LOPEZ wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen along with wife and collaborator Kristen Anderson-Lopez, earning them an Oscar® and two Grammys®. Lopez is the co-creator of the Tony® winning Avenue Q and Book of Mormon. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez co-wrote the original musical Up Here, the score for Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and Finding Nemo: The Musical. Currently they are adapting Frozen for Broadway and working on the Disney animated films Gigantic and Frozen 2. Lopez shared two Emmy® Awards for “The Wonder Pets”, and was nominated for “Scrubs” and the 87th Academy Awards. Other TV: “South Park,” “The Simpsons” and “Phineas and Ferb.” Lopez is one of 12 artists to “EGOT” —  i.e, win Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar®, and Tony® Awards. He has also won Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Frederick Loewe and Edward Kleban awards. A graduate of Yale, Lopez now resides in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.