Marjorie Duffield

Marjorie Duffield is a lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. She wrote the songs for Over The Moon (with Christopher Curtis and Helen Park), an Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated animated feature-length musical from Pearl Studios/Netflix, written by Audrey Wells and directed by Oscar winner and Disney Legend Glen Keane (October 2020). She received an Annie nomination for her work on the music, as well best original song nominations from the Hollywood Critics Association, the LEJA Award, the Satellite Award, and more. Marjorie is currently writing songs with Christopher Curtis for a new stage adaptation of French Can Can. She wrote Betterthandead, a feature-length film (2012), and episodes of the TV series Caged (2016), and the new feature-length spooky comedy, Scary-Etta. As a writer for stage, her play Ice Island: The Wait for Shackleton was produced off-Broadway by The Melting Pot Theatre Company. She has written book and lyrics for Sit-In at the Five & Dime with composer Janice Lowe, Lucky Hans (music by Danny Ashkenasi), Cyber-Alice (music by Sunmee Cho), In a Lake of Fire (Winner, Moss Hart Award and Finalist, Richard Rodgers Awards), and Tit Tales, A Body Politics Cabaret with composer by Greg Pliska. Her current projects include the libretto for Viral (music by Xander Green), Presenting Olivia Jameson (music by Robert Waldman), and lyrics for Someday (music by Chris Curtis). Marjorie has worked extensively as a theatre educator at The Calhoun School (where she received the Uhry/Thompson Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009) and in the arts-in-education programs at The Metropolitan Opera Guild and The Women's Project. Marjorie is a graduate of Williams College and NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where she was a Jacob Javits Fellow. She is a member of ASCAP, the Honor Roll!, and the Dramatists Guild, and was a recipient of the Dramatist Guild's Jonathan Larson Memorial Musical Theatre Fellowship.