Khiyon Hursey

Khiyon Hursey is a writer, dramatist and composer based in Los Angeles and New York. A 2014 graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Songwriting, he served as music assistant on the off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Hamilton and the Grammy Award Winning Cast Album, the American Repertory Theater production of Witness Uganda and its off-Broadway, retitled update Invisible Thread at Second Stage Theater. In these and other positions, he has worked with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ("LaLa Land"), Alex Lacamoire, Diane Paulus, Matt Gould, and countless others. Recipient of the ASCAP Foundation’s Irving Burgie Scholarship Bart Howard Songwriting Scholarship, a 2016 NAMT Writers Grant and a 2016 - 2017 Dramatists Guild Musical Theater Fellow. @khiyon94