Composed music and co-wrote lyrics with librettist Richard Nelson for stage musical James Joyce's The Dead, seen off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in the fall of 1999, followed by a move to Broadway where it played 120 performances.
Richard Nelson and his musical, "James Joyce's 'The Dead,'" at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Large Musical Production.