Jason Howland

Jason Howland
Born	Concord, Massachusetts
Occupation	producer, music director, conductor, playwright, composer
Spouse(s)	Dani Davis

Jason Howland is a musical theatre composer, playwright, conductor, music director, and producer. In 2015, he won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for his work producing the cast recording of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. He also wrote the music for the Broadway musical Little Women.

Howland was born June 16, 1971, in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Willamstown, Massachusetts (Little Women is set in New England). He attended Berkshire Ensemble for the Theatre Arts when he was a teenager (a camp where you write musicals).

While at Williams College, he was called to be an intern on the 1992 Vivian Matalon workshop of Jekyll & Hyde and worked his way up, becoming friendly with both composer Frank Wildhorn and arranger James Raitt, and eventually became the music director and conductor of the 1997 Broadway production.

In 2002, Howland wrote a play with Larry Pellegrini called Blessing in Disguise and it premiered Off-Broadway.

His assorted credits include musical director for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. music supervisor for The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Civil War, music director of Les Misérables, music director of Taboo, and supervising music director/incidental & dance music arrangements/vocal music arrangements of Wonderland. He also produced The Lonesome West with Davis.

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