A varied career as a recording artist, screenwriter, music producer and pianist has somehow led Yazbek to a career on Broadway. His 6 shows, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tootsie, The Band's Visit and Dead Outlaw were all Tony nominated for Best Score and Best Musical. Yazbek won the Tony for Best Score for The Band's Visit. He has also won an Emmy (for Outstanding Writing on Late Night with David Letterman) and 2 Grammys (for producing the original cast albums of Buena Vista Social Club and The Band’s Visit. His various shows have won him an Obie, several Drama Desk awards, NY Outer Critics Circle awards, and many others. The Fully Monty won him the Drama Desk Award for Best Music. As a recording artist, Yazbek is responsible for five albums: The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus, Tape Recorder and Evil Monkey Man. Yazbek scored the final season of HBO's BOARDWALK EMPIRE, scored and performed the music for Larry David's Broadway hit Fish in the Dark, and built an Ikea storage shelf all by himself.
