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Marcy Heisler is an author, artist, educator, and Drama Desk-nominated lyricist. She is the recipient of the 2012 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics, and was the co-recipient of the Fred Ebb Award with longtime composing partner Zina Goldrich. She is currently working on lyrics for Williamsburg (workshopped at NYSF) with Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tom Kitt and Emmy Award winning writer Jason Katims. Regional Productions include Ever After (Paper Mill Playhouse and Alliance Theatre), Auntie Claus (Nashville Children’s Theatre), The Great American Mousical (Goodspeed) and others. Off Broadway bookwriting credits include Dear Edwina (Daryl Roth Productions), Junie B Jones, and Junie B’s Essential Survival Guide to School (TWUSA). Recent projects include the Apple Podcast Little Did I Know, which reached #5 on the podcast musical theatre charts, and Hollywood Romance, written in collaboration with Emmy Award winners Jen Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan. She is currently developing book and lyrics for a number of romantic comedies, in addition to structuring a revue of her work with Goldrich for orchestras. Her special material standards include “Taylor, The Latte Boy” (Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming), “Alto’s Lament,” (Megan Hilty), and “Fifteen Pounds” (Stephanie J. Block).

She is also an award-winning performer who performs her work with fellow artists in concerts everywhere from Carnegie Hall to 54 Below to Hollywood’s Catalina Jazz. She signed with Concord Publishing, and an anthology of her songs (with composer Goldrich) is available from Hal Leonard. Other Awards include ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers New Horizon Award, Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, Jamie De Roy and Friends Award, a Seldes-Kanin Fellowship and an Artist-in Residency at Second Stage. TV/Film Songwriting Credits include The Middle (ABC), Julie’s Green Room (Netflix), Johnny and the Sprites (Disney Channel), and The D Show Theme (Disney Interactive). For Disney KIDS, she adapted and provided additional lyrics to Jungle Book, Cinderella, 101 Dalmatians and Sleeping Beauty. She earned a B.A. from New York University with High Honors in Dramatic Writing. Prior to NYU, she studied Theatre at Northwestern University, and is a proud Dramatists Guild and ASCAP member. As an educator, she is on the faculty of the Dramatist Guild institute, and helms a creative blockbusting workshop both in NYC and online. She looks forward to the publication of her new textbook, Fifty Two Lyrics by You.