# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-lapine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:31:13.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-lapine"
name: "James Lapine"
slug: "james-lapine"
description: "James Elliot Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn."
tagline: "American stage director and librettist. (born 1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Lapine_(14221648949)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.86
  momentum:             3.682675044883303
  historical:           10.75282533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487567/"
    handle:    "nm0487567"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jameslapine.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چيمس لاپين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джеймс Лапайн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lapine"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "جیمز لیپین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6137781"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/90037"
    title: "James Lapine"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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