Allison Light is an NYC-based musical theater lyricist and book writer in the BMI Lehman Engel Writing Workshop, where she also won the 2021 BMI Jean Banks Award for Best 10-Minute Musical (The Masterpiece, see below).
Before that, she was Head Writer of the Princeton Triangle Club, the oldest touring collegiate original musical comedy organization in the nation, where she contributed book, lyrics, and sketch for six musicals and received the Milton Lyon Award for Outstanding Writing.
She has also studied musical theater writing under composer/lyricist Bill Finn and participated in the 2021 María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop. Her songs have been performed in New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Arkansas, and South Africa (upcoming), as well as on regional tours across the east coast and Midwest.
“Stardust”
Book & Lyrics by Allison Light Music by Maria Caputo
A musical adaption of the 2007 movie by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, based on the 1997 novel by Neil Gaiman
Written as a BMI Second Year Final Project
Bill Finn Masterclass
New York Theatre Barn presents a concert of work written by members of Tony Award-winning writer William Finn’s (Falsettos, Spelling Bee) first virtual Master Classes in Lyric Writing.
“Sunday Is a Lot Like Monday”
Lyrics by Allison Light, Music by Eric Matthew Richardson
“The Radio”
Lyrics by Allison Light, Music by Diana Lawrence
“The Masterpiece” – A Short Musical Comedy
Book & lyrics by Allison Light Music by Lorrie Doriza
After years of putting her career aside to raise her daughter, an up-and-coming sculptor is finally getting her chance at the spotlight. But when the big break doesn't go as planned, she's forced to reevaluate what it means to have your dream comes true.
Winner of the 2021 BMI Jean Banks Award
Featured in “Theatricals” category of the first-ever Mixed Asian Media Festival
“Just Stay Friends”
by Allison Light and Andrew Underberg
“Free”
Lyrics by Allison Light, Music by Jacob Fjeldheim
“Not Right Now”
Lyrics by Allison Light, Music by Hillel Friedman
“Flying Blind”
Lyrics by Allison Light, Music by Udi Gershuni and Allison Light
“Worry”
Lyrics by Allison Light, Music by Sarah Nelson
“Don’t Sweat It” (Spy School Musical)
Lyrics by Allison Light, Kevin Zou, and Chris Kellogg-Peeler; Music by Lachlan Kermode
