Robert Lopez is an American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for composing the songs featured in the 3D Disney computer animated film Frozen, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Of only fifteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, he is the youngest and quickest (10 years) to win all four.
 
I got to spend an hour with Bobby in his brand new songwriting studio in Brooklyn (which was the coolest space btw – in addition to the computers and white boards that had notes about dramatic structure – there was this big ol’ cabinet that housed all of the awards that make up that EGOT title), and we talked all things about songs and his success including . . .

What an early meeting with Stephen Sondheim meant to his career.

Why he never thought The Book of Mormon would ever happen.

Why he recommends the BMI Workshop to Writers.

What he thought the moment he and his wife, Lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez, finished writing “Let It Go.”

If there might be another collaboration with the South Park guys in the future.


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