Ethan Lipton

Ethan Lipton is a playwright and songwriter, and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Since 2005, his New York-based band, Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra, has released four albums and toured venues in the U.S. and Europe, including Grand Performances in LA, Celebrate Brooklyn, the Gate in London, and Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.

The band includes Eben Levy (guitar), Ian M. Riggs (standup bass) and Vito Dieterle (sax). Ethan writes the lyrics and melodies, and the quartet arranges the songs together. Their musicals “No Place to Go” (Obie award) and “The Outer Space” (Lortel nom.) were produced in Joe’s Pub by the Public Theater and directed by Leigh Silverman. The band is currently working on “The Unlived Life,” a musical response to a book of essays by psychoanalyst Adam Phillips.

Ethan has been an Alpert Prize Fellow at MacDowell, a member of the Public’s Emerging Writers Group, part of Space at Ryder Farm’s Working Farm, a Playwrights Realm Page One Fellow, a Joe’s Pub New York Voices and NYFA grantee, and he is a longtime Clubbed Thumb associate artist. His plays are published by Samuel French.