Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty

Best known for her long-running partnership with composer Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens is a Tony Award-winning lyricist and writer. Among their most popular work together are the Broadway musical Ragtime and the Fox animated film Anastasia. A New York native, Ahrens graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in journalism and spent several years in advertising before she had the opportunity to write words and music for the Schoolhouse Rock! educational TV shorts (some of her contributions included "Interplanet Janet," "A Noun Is a Person, Place or Thing," and "Do the ...