Recipient of The ASCAP Foundation 2004 Max Dreyfus Scholarship at NYU Tisch School of the Arts

This scholarship, created to identify young talent and to encourage the study of musical theatre, is presented each year to a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Funded by an endowment from the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, it honors the music publisher Max Dreyfus who served on ASCAP's Board for 50 years and was a mentor to many musical theatre legends.

Caroline Murphy
Caroline Murphy, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she began writing for the theatre. Her first play, Last Say, appeared in the Shakespeare and Company New Play Festival, in the Berkshires, in western Massachusetts, and is now preparing to run in Los Angeles. Her second play, Shifts of Focus, ran in the New York Fringe Festival. Straight Ahead, which played in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the New York Fuse Fest, is now being adapted for film. She has also taught songwriting to high school students through City Center's Encores program in New York City. Caroline is currently working on the book and lyrics for two different musicals to earn her Master's Degree at the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program at NYU's Tisch School.