Lonny Price

Director/Actor/Writer

Lonny Price is an Emmy Award-winning director, actor and writer.  On Broadway he wrote, directed and starred in A Class Act and staged Urban Cowboy the musical, as well as revivals of 110 in the Shade, Sunset Boulevard and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (the last two of which also played in London’s West End.)

For the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, he staged concert versions of Camelot, Candide, Carousel, and three Sondheim musicals, Company, Passion and Sweeney Todd (which he staged twice, with two star-studded casts) and the Sondheim 80th Birthday Concert.  Many of his productions have been seen on PBS and HBO and he’s directed episodes of Desperate Housewives as well.  

As an actor, Lonny appeared in Falsettoland, Burn This, Rags, Master Harold and the Boys and he made his Broadway debut as Charlie Kringas in George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s legendary flop Merrily We Roll Along which has now enjoyed over two dozen major revivals in London, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and other major cities throughout the world.

In 2016, he directed the documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, which chronicles the "thrilling, wrenching experience" of that original Hal Prince production and was named one of the Top Ten Films of the year by the NY Times.