# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-yazbek
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:50.644Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-yazbek"
name: "David Yazbek"
slug: "david-yazbek"
description: "David Norman Yazbek is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), The Band's Visit (2017), Tootsie (2019), and Dead Outlaw (2025). He won a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for The Band's Visit. He also consulted on the musical Buena Vista Social Club, for which he won another Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DavidYazbek-byPhilipRomano.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.78
  momentum:             0.7840909090909092
  historical:           6.868328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/DavidYazbek"
    handle:    "DavidYazbek"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946944/"
    handle:    "nm0946944"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/699015"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ديڤيد يازبيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yazbek"
    title: "David Yazbek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A8%DA%A9"
    title: "دیوید یزبک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yazbek"
    title: "David Yazbek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yazbek"
    title: "David Yazbek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6fd6a610-068d-42a0-945a-95b0afcbd621"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5241354"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5523211"
    title: "David Yazbek"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump