Masi Asare

Masi Asare is an American lyricist, composer, playwright, and academic. She co-wrote the lyrics to the Broadway musical Paradise Square with Nathan Tysen. For this she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score at the 75th Tony Awards in 2022.^[1][2] She is also the lyricist for the Off-Broadway musical Monsoon Wedding and is the playwright for Mirror of Most Value: A Ms. Marvel Play; a play written for use in school drama programs for teenagers in collaboration with Marvel Comics. She is the composer, lyricist, and playwright for the musicals Rishvor and The Family Resemblance, and is the composer and lyricist for the musical Sympathy Jones. She currently is an assistant professor in the School of Communications at Northwestern University.

Asare was a Dramatist Guild fellow, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.^[3] She is also in the BMI Advanced Workshop.^[4] She was listed by the Broadway Women's Fund as one of the "Women to Watch on Broadway" in 2022.^[5] There is a chapter about her in the book Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre.^[6]