EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, 2025

EVENT: The University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance will host a master class with songwriters and producers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The duo, both alumni of SMTD, will work with several musical theater students on their performances of Pasek & Paul songs as part of the Sally Fleming Master Class Series.

Pasek & Paul are Oscar, Grammy, Tony, Emmy and Olivier Award-winning songwriter and producers best known for their work on La La Land, The Greatest Showman and Dear Evan Hansen, each of which spawned albums that landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200.

In 2018, The Greatest Showman soundtrack was the world’s best-selling album and spent multiple weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

In 2024, they won their first Emmy Award as songwriters of Only Murders in the Building that resulted in their EGOT status, joining an elite list of artists who have won all four major show business prizes.

The pair became the youngest winners of the Jonathan Larson Award and the first writers for stage or screen to be honored with the ASCAP Vanguard Award.

PUBLIC: This event is free and open to the public; seating is available on a first-come, first served basis.

PLACE: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E Washington St., Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance