Sybille Pearson
Sybille Pearson (born January 25, 1937, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a playwright, musical theatre lyricist and librettist.
Biography
Pearson was a graduate student in the creative writing program at the City College of New York in 1980, when her play, the two-person comedy-drama Sally and Marsha was chosen to be produced at the Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut. The play was subsequently produced Off-Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1982, and starred Bernadette Peters and Christine Baranski. The reviewer for The Associated Press wrote that "It has some well-written passages, some warm, moving moments and a goodly share of funny lines...Miss Pearson has talent, no question. But I hope someday she flees the pack of local scriveners who think West Side woe, shrinks and trips to Bloomingdale's are worth writing about."
She wrote the book for the musical Baby, which ran on Broadway in 1984, and for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.