The Lazours
Playwright, PlayPenn Teaching Artist
The Lazours (Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour) are brothers and Richard Rodgers Award-winning musical theatre writers of Lebanese descent. We Live in Cairo, their musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, was directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar and received its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), followed by a subsequent production at New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW). The musical was initially workshopped at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at NYTW.
Their new musical about cancer and its treatment through the ages, Night Side Songs, was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, and had premiere productions at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Philadelphia Theatre Company, and an upcoming production at Lincoln Center’s LCT3, directed and developed with Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Co-Artistic Director, Taibi Magar.
Their projects in development include a movie musical, Challenger: An American Dream, a musical film about the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster; Romulus & Remus, a 60-minute epic song-based work; and a stage adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox, which will premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in May 2026, directed by Tony Award-winning director Rachel Chavkin.
The Lazours are Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows and recipients of an American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant and the Dramatists Guild Foundation Stephen Schwartz Award. In addition to their theatre work, the Lazours are teaching artists at PlayPenn and Lincoln Center Theater and have participated in creative residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and Hermitage Artist Retreat.
They thank anyone who listens to their music, the most generous of those being their parents, Paul and Nel.