William Alan Finn (b. February 28 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) is an award-winning American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals. Life William Finn grew up in Natick, Massachusetts with his parents and siblings, Michael and Nancy. He majored in music at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He lives with his life partner in New York City, where he is an independent composer and writer. He is also "Adjunct Faculty Composer/Lyricist" at NYU. Work Finn is a heavily autobiographical textwriter (he always writes his own lyrics); his topics are the gay andJewish experiences in contemporary America, and very often conflict, loyalty, family, belonging, sickness, healing, and loss. Finn is especially well noted for his work on what was to become a trilogy of short musical shows off-broadway. In Trousers,March of the Falsettos, and Falsettoland all chronicle the lives of the c