Richard Maltby, Jr.

Richard Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937, Ripon, Wisconsin) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Maltby is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine, sometimes in collaboration with E. R. Galli, since the January 1976 issue. Maltby has conceived and directed the only two musical revues to ever win the Tony Award for Best Musical: Ain't Misbehavin' (1... more

Richard Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937, Ripon, Wisconsin) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Maltby is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine, sometimes in collaboration with E. R. Galli, since the January 1976 issue. Maltby has conceived and directed the only two musical revues to ever win the Tony Award for Best Musical: Ain't Misbehavin' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards, also Tony Award for Best Director) and Fosse (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards). He was director/co-lyricist for the American version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, (1986) starring Bernadette Peters. He was co-lyricist for Miss Saigon (Evening Standard Award 1990; Tony nomination: Best Score, 1991). Maltby and David Shire started working together as students at Yale University; their first Broadway credit was in 1968, when their song "The Girl of the Minute"... less