Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) has named composer and lyricist Madeline Myers as the 2025 recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Award.

The Stephen Schwartz Award is a pledge to the future of musical theatre, 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.

Madeline Myers is a composer and lyricist in New York City. Her musicals include Double Helix, Flatbush Avenue, and The Devil’s Apprentice. A 2025 recipient of the Kleban Prize for libretto and named to the Broadway Women’s Fund 2022 “Women to Watch on Broadway” list, Myers is a three-time finalist for the Kleban Prize for lyric writing, a winner of the 2021 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award presented by New York Stage & Film and the Ziegfeld Club, a four-time finalist for the Jonathan Larson Grant, a 2019 York Theatre Company NEO Writer, and a 2016-2017 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow. She is an original member of the music department of the Broadway production of Hamilton.

The Stephen Schwartz Award debuted in 2019. Past recipients include Daniel Lazour (2024), Benjamin Velez (2023), Heather Christian (2022), Emily Gardner Xu Hall (2021), Khiyon Hursey (2020), and Oliver Houser (2019).

Myers’ work will be spotlighted as part of the DGF Fellows 25th Anniversary celebration at this year’s Gala, set for October 20. For more information, visit DGFGala.com.