Pasek and Paul

Pasek and Paul
Benj Pasek (left) and Justin Paul
Background information
Genres	Musical Theatre
Website	pasekandpaul.com
Members	Benj Pasek Justin Paul

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are a musical theatre composing team. Their works include A Christmas Story, Dogfight, Edges, Dear Evan Hansen, and James and the Giant Peach. Their original songs have been featured on NBC's Smash, and in the film La La Land, for which they won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Both artists are graduates of the University of Michigan and winners of the American Theatre Wing's 2007 Jonathan Larson Award, named after the late Rent composer. It honors achievement by composers, lyricists and librettists.

Pasek and Paul started working together as freshmen at the University of Michigan where they completed their BFA degrees in musical theatre in December 2006.

In 2010, Pasek and Paul joined the creative team of A Christmas Story, The Musical. The musical opened at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre on December 9, 2010. Since the Seattle premiere, the show recruited John Rando and choreographer Warren Carlyle to launch a national tour in 2011, concluding at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. The musical played a limited engagement on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from November 19, 2012 through December 30, 2012; this was Pasek and Paul's Broadway debut as songwriters.