Career
Ostrow"s first solo project was as producer and director of Meredith Willson"s Here"s Love, the 1963 musical stage adaptation of the classic film Miracle on 34th Street. In 1973, Ostrow established the Stuart Ostrow Foundation’s Musical Theatre Laboratory, a non-profit, professional workshop for original musical theatre, the first of its kind. Since its inception, the MTLab has presented thirty-two experimental new works, including The Robber Bridegroom by Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman, Really Rosie by Maurice Sendak and Carole King, and Up From Paradise by Arthur Miller and Stanley Silverman.
Ostrow presently is the Distinguished University Professor of Theatre at the University of Houston.
He typically teaches up to three classes per school year, including a workshop class focused on the creation of new musicals. Ostrow is the author of A Producer’s Broadway Journey, Thank You Very Much (The Little Guide To Auditioning Foreign The Musical Theatre), and Present At The Creation, Leaping In The Dark and Going Against The Grain: 1776, Pippin, M. Butterfly, Louisiana Bête & Other Broadway Adventures.
1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play (Louisiana Bête, nominee).
