Stephen Dolginoff

{{Short description|American playwright and composer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1968|5|8}}

| field = Playwright/Composer/Lyricist

| training = New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

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Stephen Dolginoff is an American playwright and composer. His most notable work is Thrill Me, the musical version of the true story of Leopold and Loeb, which opened Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in 2005,{{cite web |url=http://yorktheatre.org/History.htm |title=General Information & History |website=yorktheatre.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021126014739/http://www.yorktheatre.org/History.htm |archive-date=2002-11-26}} featuring Dolginoff himself as Nathan Leopold.[https://archive.today/20120907102508/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94334.html Playbill] Subsequently, it was published by Dramatists Play Service,{{cite web|url=https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3686|title = Dramatists Play Service, Inc}} and has had over 150 productions in 16 countries and 10 languages. Dolginoff won an ASCAP Music Award for the score of Thrill Me and was nominated for New York's Drama Desk Award for both Best Musical and Best Music Score{{Cite web |url=http://dramadesk.com/nominations_2006.html |title=Drama Desk |access-date=2008-12-27 |archive-date=2008-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704130714/http://www.dramadesk.com/nominations_2006.html |url-status=dead }} as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Off-Broadway Musical.{{cite web |url=http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Thrill%20Me%3A%20The%20Leopold%20%26%20Loeb%20Story |title=Lortel Archives--The Internet Off-Broadway Database |website=www.lortel.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083610/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=show&title=Thrill%20Me:%20The%20Leopold%20&%20Loeb%20Story |archive-date=2007-09-29}} The Los Angeles production was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Musical in an Intimate Theatre.{{cite web |url=http://www.lastagealliance.com/pdf/ovation/2008/List%20of%20Nominees%203.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-10-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219092050/http://www.lastagealliance.com/pdf/ovation/2008/List%20of%20Nominees%203.pdf |archive-date=2009-02-19 }} In 2009, Dolginoff received a Los Angeles Garland Award honorable mention for the Music & Lyrics of Thrill Me.[http://www.backstage.com/bso/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003950964 Backstage] {{dead link|date=January 2024}}

For his 1994 musical, One Foot Out the Door, he received the Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Book, Music & Lyrics.

Dolginoff has also written the musicals Flames (premiere production 2013),{{cite web|url=http://siouxcityjournal.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/lamb-arts-premieres-new-play-flames-as-fundraiser/article_1da33527-c51c-583c-ba53-6116b47f2b78.html|title = Lamb Arts premieres new play 'Flames' as fundraiser| date=10 October 2013 }} which was subsequently published by Samuel French, Inc.,{{Cite web|url=https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/17390/flames|title=Flames|website=Concord Theatricals|accessdate=13 January 2024}} Monster Makers, which premiered in NYC in 2015 at the Daryl Roth Theatre/D-Lounge, featuring Dolginoff as Max Schreck, Boris Karloff and Peter Cushing, and was also published by Samuel French;{{cite web|url=https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/59114/monster-makers|title = Monster Makers}} Most Men Are, Journey to the Center of the Earth{{Cite web |url=http://www.fullyflighted.com/journey.html |title=Journey |access-date=2008-12-27 |archive-date=2014-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111223940/http://www.fullyflighted.com/journey.html |url-status=dead }} and Panic (which opened at the Lamb Theatre in April 2009).{{cite web|url=http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/04/24/entertainment/local/301e25cbab2df109862575a1006de877.txt|title='Panic' premieres on stage of Lamb Productions|date=24 April 2009 }} After starring in the Off-Broadway production, Dolginoff later portrayed the role of Nathan Leopold, in the Seattle,{{Cite news|url=https://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-03-07/arts/blood-lust-and-legacies/|title=Blood, Lust, and Legacies|newspaper=Seattle Weekly |date=6 March 2007}} and Buffalo{{cite web|url=http://cinemaqueer.com/review%20pages/interviewstephendolginoff.html |title=interview with stephen dolginoff 2007 |publisher=Cinemaqueer.com |date= |accessdate=2022-06-18}} productions of Thrill Me, and reprised the roles of Schreck, Karloff & Cushing in a second staging of Monster Makers in 2016 at Feinstein's/54 Below in New York City.{{Cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/leo-ash-evens-russell-fischer-set-for-concert-reading-of-monster-makers|title=Leo Ash Evens, Russell Fischer Set for Concert Reading of Monster Makers | Playbill|accessdate=13 January 2024}} In 2018 he originated the role of “Orson Welles” in a revised version of his musical Panic at The Cell Theatre in New York City. He received a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

In 2024, his memoir “Thrill Maker” was published. It details the thirty year history of his musical “Thrill Me.” {{Cite web|url=https://offstagedrama.com|title=“Thrill Maker” published by Offstage Drama Publishing; Offstagedrama|accessdate=2024-01-24}}

He was born and raised in Kansas City.