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 continues to be produced in the US and Canada as well as worldwide, most recently in Italy, London and Tokyo.  Current projects include lyrics for THE PILOT AND THE LITTLE PRINCE, which premieres in Katowice, Poland in October 2024, book and lyrics for MAIDEN VOYAGE (New Works Provincetown), lyrics for WITNESSES (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), east coast premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse, developed at Transport Group, NAMT, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, and the Goodspeed Johnny Mercer and Rhinebeck retreats. 

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), Playwrights Horizons (book and lyrics for TRIP, based on Rip Van Winkle; Harold & Mimi Steinberg Commission), and the ASCAP Workshop. Her songs have been performed 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”), among others. 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) and a BFA from NYU’s Department of Undergraduate Drama.