Composer Daniel Lazour has received the Dramatists Guild Foundation's 2024 Stephen Schwartz Award.

The Stephen Schwartz Award is given annually to a musical theatre writer whose voice is seen as critical to the continued success of the craft. The recipient is granted $10,000 in unconditional support of their work.

Lazour’s current project, We Live in Cairo, recently opened at New York Theatre Workshop. Written alongside brother Patrick Lazour, the musical is about the beginning of the Arab Spring. Lazour's other projects include Night Side Songs (UTR/PTC/ART 2025), a stage adaptation of the film The Lunchbox, and a movie musical titled Challenger: An American Dream. He received a B.A. in music from Columbia University. He plays guitar, piano, and tin whistle and releases music regularly with his brother as The Lazours.

The Stephen Schwartz Award debuted in 2019. Past recipients are Benjamin Velez, Heather Christian, Emily Gardner Xu Hall, Khiyon Hursey, and Oliver Houser.

For more information on DGF’s awards for writers or how to support theatre writers, visit DGF.org.