ASA SOMERS is a New York City-based writer and performer who grew up on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University.  Asa wrote the libretto for the Duck Dynasty musical, based on the reality series from A+E Network, which received a first-class production in Las Vegas in 2015. Directed by Tony-nominated Jeff Calhoun and produced by multiple Tony-winning Dodger Theatricals and music-industry legend Tommy Mottola, the show received near universal acclaim. As a performer, Asa is well-known to New York audiences, having appeared in seven Broadway shows. He is currently in Water for Elephants. Previously, he was in Dear Evan Hansen  and starred on Broadway in the Tony and Pulitzer-winning musical Next to Normal, reprising the role opposite Alice Ripley in the First National Tour (Seattle Theater Award for Best Actor). Asa played the title role in the original NYC and San Francisco productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch; starred in Dallas Theater Center’s production of Fly by Night (Dallas Column Award nomination) and the off-Broadway musical Once Around the Sun; and has appeared on TV in over a dozen shows, among them Billions, Mr. Robot, and Gossip Girl.