# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynn-ahrens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:21:28.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynn-ahrens"
name: "Lynn Ahrens"
slug: "lynn-ahrens"
description: "Lynn Ahrens is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime. Together with Flaherty, she has written many musicals, including Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Ragtime, Seussical, A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones, Rocky, Little Dancer, Anastasia, and Once on This Island."
tagline: "American writer and lyricist (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LynnAhrens-byPhilipRomano.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.61
  momentum:             9.171018276762402
  historical:           7.878130666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014326/"
    handle:    "nm0014326"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/702543"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "لين اهرينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Ahrens"
    title: "Lynn Ahrens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Ahrens"
    title: "Lynn Ahrens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Ahrens"
    title: "Lynn Ahrens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Ahrens"
    title: "Lynn Ahrens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Ahrens"
    title: "Lynn Ahrens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/17f0182e-146a-4115-8c83-aa291b4e3acc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q293323"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1242428"
    title: "Lynn Ahrens"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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