Portrait of Stephen Schwartz

Writing

Stephen Schwartz

Career

Active from 1973 to 2025, with a break from 2001 to 2020, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Average score
GoodWatch score67/100
Highest rated
Poster for Wicked
Wicked
GoodWatch score79/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 14 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 4.1 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 6.4 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.7 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.6 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.5 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 7.0 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Stephen Schwartz Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    2.4, average 5.4
  • Crime
    1.0, average 3.6
  • Mystery
    2.1, average 4.0
  • Violence
    2.3, average 4.1

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Musical 3
  • Coming-of-Age 2
  • Fantasy 2
  • Stage Adaptation 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

27
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

Upcoming

2 titles
Hunchback
Hunchback

Lyricist

Marley
Marley

Musical

2020s

12 titles ยท average score 73
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... (2026)
GoodWatch score 86

Music

Wicked: For Good
Wicked: For Good (2025)
GoodWatch score 66

Original Music Composer, Musician

Wicked: One Wonderful Night
Wicked: One Wonderful Night (2025)
GoodWatch score 79

Thanks, Music

Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert
Pippin: 50th Anniversary Concert (2025)

Music, Lyricist

Wicked
Wicked (2024)
GoodWatch score 79

as Emerald City Guard (uncredited)

The Prince of Egypt: The Musical
The Prince of Egypt: The Musical (2023)
GoodWatch score 73

Musical, Lyricist

Children of Eden Jr.
Children of Eden Jr. (2023)

Writer

Disenchanted
Disenchanted (2022)
GoodWatch score 49

Lyricist

Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (2021)

Music, Writer

tick, tick... BOOM!
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
GoodWatch score 79

as Aspiring Composers and Lyricists

Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (2021)

Writer

Leonard Bernstein Mass
Leonard Bernstein Mass (2020)

Lyricist

2010s

2 titles
A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway
A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway (2018)

Music, Songs

Godspell
Godspell (2017)

Music

2000s

2 titles ยท average score 67
Enchanted
Enchanted (2007)
GoodWatch score 78

Songs

Geppetto
Geppetto (2000)
GoodWatch score 56

Music, Original Music Composer

1990s

3 titles ยท average score 71
The Prince of Egypt
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
GoodWatch score 75

Songs

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
GoodWatch score 75

Lyricist, Songs

Pocahontas
Pocahontas (1995)
GoodWatch score 62

Lyricist, Songs

1980s

5 titles ยท average score 73
Jagger und Spaghetti
Jagger und Spaghetti (1984)

Writer

The Magic Show
The Magic Show (1983)

Lyricist, Music

Working
Working (1982)

Lyricist, Director

Pippin
Pippin (1981)
GoodWatch score 73

Musical, Lyricist

Leonard Bernstein's Mass
Leonard Bernstein's Mass (1981)

Writer

1970s

1 title ยท average score 58
Godspell
Godspell (1973)
GoodWatch score 58

Songs, Original Music Composer