Sam Carner

Sam Carner won the 2015 Kleban Prize for Most Promising Librettist. He received his BA from Yale University and received his MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program on a Departmental Fellowship.

In addition to his work with Derek Gregor, Sam wrote the children’s musical Barnyard Follies as a commission for the Children’s Theatre of Maine. Barnyard Follies won the Moonlit Wings International Playwriting Festival and was presented at children’s camps around the DC area in the summer of 2017, going on to a production at the Perth Youth Theatre in Australia, with more productions slated around the US for 2018.

His one-act play, Brady, was performed at the University of Southern Maine, and his 1920′s-style college musical, Just Call Me Eli! won the John Golden Prize for Best Original Musical by a Yale Undergraduate in 2000.

Over the past several years, Sam has lectured regularly on various musical-theatre-related topics at Yale. Sam has taught Musical Theatre History and Analysis at NYU and Yale and songwriting at NYU.