Laurence O'Keefe

Composer/lyricist Laurence O'Keefe first emerged on the international musical-theater stage in the late '90s with the eventual cult classic Bat Boy. He made his Broadway debut in 2007 with the perkier but also subversive Legally Blonde, earning him a Tony nomination for score. Another irreverent comedic film adaptation, Heathers premiered off-Broadway in 2014 featuring music by O'Keefe. The son of writer and longtime Reader's Digest editor Daniel O'Keefe, Laurence O'Keefe was studying anthropology at Harvard University when he started writing for The Harvard Lampoon. His for...