Daniel & Patrick Lazour

Music & Lyrics for Prayer

Daniel and Patrick Lazour (known professionally as the Lazours) are brothers and music theatre writers. They have workshopped their piece We Live in Cairo at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and at New York Theatre Workshop under the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award. It premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in May 2019 directed by Obie Award-winner Taibi Magar and an album of its music Flap My Wings (Songs from We Live in Cairo) was recorded in quarantine and features major activist-songwriters from the Arab world. They have developed their work during residencies at the O’Neill, Ucross, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Yaddo and MacDowell. Their new musical community project about cancer treatment, patients and caretakers was workshopped at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Theatre, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat and is being developed with the American Repertory Theater. Patrick and Daniel were 2015-16 Dramatists Guild Fellows and are New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. Most recently, they were artists-in-residence at the American University in Cairo and are teaching artists at Lincoln Center Theater. They perform their songs live at the Boiler Room in New York City. Most recently, they were recipients of the 2021 Jonathan Larson grant, which is an unconditional annual investment in individual talent.