“I still see myself as a sideman in many ways. Coming from a jazz family, I always felt like I should earn a living. So for the last 20 years I’ve been a writer-for-hire, basically.” – Warren Leight

Side Man
By Warren Leight

In 1999, playwright Warren Leight emerged from near-obscurity, when his piercing play Side Man won the Tony Award for best play. This meditation on jazz music and the American family fuses light and dark, melody and discord, in ways that echo the best of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

“It ends up doing what the best jazz players have always managed, making the voices of forgotten people sound out with a clarity that demands attention.”
– New York Daily News

• Listen to a Podcast of an Interview with George Walker, WFIU
• Listen to a Podcast of the review by George Walker, WFIU
• Learn more about our cast
• Read about the director of Side Man, Eric Friedman
• See our Press Release
• Read about Tom Conner and his thesis role of Clifford
• Learn more about the artist Shakor

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