Mindi Dickstein

MINDI DICKSTEIN is an award-winning writer of plays and musicals who is best known as the lyricist for Broadway's LITTLE WOMEN (licensed by MTI, Original Broadway Cast album released by Ghostlight/Sh-k-boom Records), which has productions annually in the US, Canada, and around the world, most recently in Italy, London, and Tokyo.  Recent work includes: lyrics for THE PILOT AND THE LITTLE PRINCE, which premiered in Katowice, Poland in October 2024; book and lyrics for MAIDEN VOYAGE, world premiere July 2025 in London at The Southwark Playhouse Elephant (nominated for five Fringe Theatre Awards, including best lyrics and best musical); lyrics for WITNESSES at the California Center for the Arts (2022 San Diego Critics award for Best Production), and lyrics for BENNY & JOON, based on the MGM film, world premiere at The Old Globe (2017 San Diego Critics nominee for Best Musical).

Her work has been commissioned, produced, and developed widely, including by Disney (book for TOY STORY, based on the animated film), Second Stage (lyrics for SNOW IN AUGUST, based on the novel by Pete Hamill, now in development for San Diego’s Old Globe), Playwrights Horizons (book and lyrics for TRIP, based on Rip Van Winkle, a Harold & Mimi Steinberg Commission), and the ASCAP Workshop. Her work has also been developed at the Transport Group, NAMT, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, and the Goodspeed Johnny Mercer Grove and Rhinebeck retreats.  

Her songs have been performed widely, including at The Kennedy Center, 54 Below, The Cutting Room, Gotham Hall (The Dramatists Guild’s “Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars”) and Lincoln Center (“Hear and Now: Contemporary Lyricists”).  Honors include a Larson Foundation Award, New York Foundation for the Arts and Massachusetts Artists Foundation Playwriting Fellowships, and a Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award for Excellence in Musical Theater.

She has an MFA from GMTWP, where she was an Oscar Hammerstein Fellow.