Murray Horwitz is a Tony Award-winning playwright, lyricist, and broadcaster. Called “my first mentor” by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, his accomplishments include co-authoring the hit Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin’, writing popular song lyrics for John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby at the Metropolitan Opera, originating the NPR comedy quiz, Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me, and co-creating the Mark Twain Prize In American Humor at the Kennedy Center.  His other work has been presented at the Public Theater, the Manhattan Theater Club, Crossroads Theater, the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Alliance Theater, and other regional theaters in the U.S. and Canada.  As an NPR broadcaster, he received three Peabody Awards, and the Order of Arts and Letters from the government of France.  He began his career as a Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus clown.