Stephen Schwartz

Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz received the Society of Composers & Lyricists’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 SCL New York Holiday Party.

In addition to a montage of highlighted scenes from stage musicals and films, the presentation included a congratulatory video message from fellow Lifetime Achievement Award winner Alan Menken, a conversation with SCL President Ashley Irwin, and a live performance by Schwartz of the two new songs, “The Girl in the Bubble,” and, “No Place Like Home,” from Wicked: For Good.

Stephen Schwartz is the three-time Academy® Award-winning composer and lyricist of The Prince of Egypt(Academy Award for best song, “When You Believe”) and, in collaboration with Alan Menken, the lyricist for Disney’s Pocahontas (Academy Award for best song, “Colors of the Wind”, and best score) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the musical adaption of the 1996 film), and the film Enchanted. He received another Academy Award nomination for the score, in collaboration with John Powell, for last year’s Wicked.
 
For the theatre, in addition to the long-running stage version of Wicked, he has contributed music and lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working, Children of Eden, and the upcoming The Queen of Versailles. 
 
He has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Theatre Hall of Fame. He is a former president of the Dramatists Guild and currently serves on its council and the council of the ASCAP Foundation. Other awards include four Grammy® Awards, a Golden Globe®, and a special Tony® award for his support of young artists.