Richard Maltby, Jr. is an American director/lyricist of Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals. In collaboration with his partner, composer David Shire, Maltby has created musicals for the stage from the late 1970s up to the present day. Chief among his works are "Starting Here, Starting Now" (1977 -- Grammy nomination), "Baby" (1983 -- seven Tony nominations including Best Musical), "Closer than Ever" (1989 -- two Outer Critics Circle Awards: Best Musical, Best Score); and "Big" (Tony nomination, Best Score). As conceiver/director, Mr. Maltby created the only two revues ever to win Tony Awards: "Ain't Misbehavin'" (1978 --for which he also won the Tony Award as Best Director); and "Fosse" (1999); and he created and directed the Johnny Cash show "Ring of Fire" (2006). He wrote the lyrics for "Miss Saigon" with Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, which ran nine years in NYC, eleven years in London, and won London's Evening Standard Award as Best Musical. He directed and co-wrote with Don Black the American version of "Song and Dance" which won a Tony Award for its star, Bernadette Peters. Mr. Maltby has contibuted crossword puzzles to New York Magazine and composes the cryptic crossword for Harper's Magazine. He is married to Janet Brenner and has five children, Nicholas, David, Jordan, Emily and Charlotte.