What Pulitzer prize winning, American composer known for exploring addiction and homophobia, wrote "Tick, Tick...Boom!"?
Jonathan Larson Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for exploring the social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works, "Rent" and "tick, tick... BOOM!" He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock musical "Rent".
Aaron Novik Aaron Novik (born July 21, 1974) is an American composer, clarinetist and bandleader based in San Francisco.  He is involved with the Bay Area Improv Scene and is a member of Edmund Welles The Bass Clarinet Quartet which was a 2004 recipient of a New Works Creation and Presentation grant from Chamber Music America. Novik has appeared in San Francisco and New York City with guitarist Fred Frith re-creating his 1980 avant-garde dance album, "Gravity".