Jaime Lozano is a Mexican, multi-award-winning, and multi-hyphenate musical theatre storyteller, considered by Lin-Manuel Miranda as the “next big thing” on Broadway. A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Jaime earned his BFA in Music and Composition from the School of Music at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and was the recipient of a full scholarship to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he has the distinction of being the first Mexican to be accepted to and earn an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Jaime has been awarded with some of the most prestigious grants and artist residencies such as the Pipeline Arts Foundation Award 2025, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat 2025, 2025 Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Opera House, the 2024-2025 Dramatists Guild Fellowship,, 2023 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts artist-in-residence, the 2020-2022 Joe’s Pub Working Group, The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021, JACK Resident Artist 2021. In 2021, he was the recipient of the “Premio a las Artes,” created by the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León to honor outstanding achievement in the arts in Mexico, an HOLA Elizabeth Peña Breakthrough Artist Award 2022, and, more recently, he is the recipient of the American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant 2022.

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A prolific composer, Jaime’s works have been produced at venues such as The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, Little Island, Bryant Park, Times Square, the Minskoff Theatre (Broadway), Lucille Lortel Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Pearl Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Players Theatre (Off-Broadway), Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (Off Broadway), Goodspeed Opera House, The Juilliard School of Music, The Triad Theatre, MASS MoCA, Theatre for the New City, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Merkin Concert Hall, St. George Theatre, Soho Playhouse, Metropolitan Room, Théâtre du Châtelet and Comédie Nation (Paris, France), Theater 11 (Zurich, Switzerland), Deutsches Theater (Munich, Germany), Admiralspalast (Berlin, Germany), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Teatro Benito Juárez (Mexico City), and Aula Magna (Monterrey, Mexico). Selected works include El Otro Oz, formerly known as The Yellow Brick Road (music and lyrics with Tommy Newman, book by Mando Alvarado), which premiered Off-Broadway in 2011 to critical acclaim, highlighting “its accessible melodies and robust harmonies” (New York Times). That production was followed by a successful national tour. Jaime’s musical Children of Salt: A New Latin Musical (book and lyrics by Lauren Epsenhart) made its New York City debut as part of the New York Musical Festival 2016 (NYMF), where it won the “Best of Fest” Production Award. Jaime’s song cycle A Never-Ending Line, a collaboration with 9 female lyricists, had its World Premiere in Paris, France as part of the concert series of “Broadway au Carré” at the Comédie Nation Theatre and its Spanish language World Premiere in Mexico followed by an Off-Broadway run at The Players Theatre, the musical Savage (book and lyrics by Tommy Newman) premiered in Birmingham, Alabama as a commission by the University of Alabama. Jaime’s musical Present Perfect - A musical in broken English (book and lyrics by Nancy Cheser) has been developed by Salgado Productions and Live and in Color. His new musical DESAPARECIDAS, written in collaboration with Florencia Cuenca and Georgina Escobar, had a sold-out run in December 2022 at JACK in Brooklyn, New York. His new musical ROJA, in collaboration with Tommy Newman, was developed at Forestburgh Playhouse, and it was part of the In The Works / In The Woods Festival in 2024. ROJA was also selected to be part of the NAMT 37th Annual Festival of New Musicals.

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Jaime has also dabbled in film scoring, most notably having written the score for the short film "Os" by Jesús Alarcón and for the short film "Villa Encanto" by Joel Perez premiered at the Tribeca Festival. In 2015, Jaime and his wife, Mexican actress and singer Florencia Cuenca, created a jazz project called The New Standards. The New Standards recorded an album of contemporary musical theatre songs accompanied by jazz arrangements written by Lozano and Jesús Altamira, touring at prominent venues in New York City, Mexico, and across Latin America.

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In addition to being a composer, Jaime is also an accomplished director. Jaime has staged Into The Woods (2015), Jesus Christ Superstar (1999, 2001, 2005), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (2003, 2012) and The Fantasticks (2000) in Mexico. In August 2003, Jaime directed the Mexican premiere of Jekyll & Hyde. Jaime adapted, produced, and directed the Spanish world premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years (2006, 2013) and Songs for a New World (2005). In March of 2004, he developed, produced, and directed the concert for the Broadway Elite Gala.

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Jaime is also known as an arranger, music director, and orchestrator. As an arranger, Jaime has worked with the cast of Broadway’s In the Heights and with Tony and Grammy award-winner Alex Lacamoire on the 2010 Christmas recording "Carols for a Cure". Jaime is also the arranger, orchestrator, and music director for R.Evolución Latina’s album "Dare to Go Beyond", which features Broadway performers Janet Dacal, Andréa Burns, Joshua Henry, Doreen Montalvo, Josefina Scaglione, and High School Musical star Corbin Bleu. Jaime co-orchestrated the Cuban musical Carmen La Cubana with Alex Lacamoire. Carmen La Cubana had its world premiere in Paris, France, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 2016, which was followed by a very successful European tour. Jaime was Alex Lacamoire’s Assistant Musical Director for the Stephen Schwartz Gala Making Music, which was directed and choreographed by Chet Walker and produced by The Harbor Lights Theatre Company at The St. George Theatre. He worked as a composer, arranger, and music director for the 2010 HOLA Awards honoring Rita Moreno. He was also an arranger for the one-night-only benefit concert To Mexico from New York with Love, which was organized by Broadway actress Bianca Marroquín. Jaime is the music producer, arranger, and orchestrator of Broadway star Doreen Montalvo’s new album “American Soul / Latin Heart.” The album of his song cycle A Never-Ending Line, featuring 30 Broadway performers such as Betsy Wolfe, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jenna Ushkowitz, Julia Murney, Emily Skeggs, Natalie Weiss, Arielle Jacobs, is available at Broadway Records. As a singing teacher and vocal coach, Jaime has worked with some of the most important musical theatre performers in Latin America and the United States. He teaches workshops and master classes all around the world.

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Jaime has performed sold-out shows at Two River Theater, Joe’s Pub, The Green Room 42, and Feinstein’s/54 Below with his concert “Jaime Lozano & The Familia: Songs by an Immigrant,” which features an all-Latino lineup of Broadway stars. The show spotlights the immigrant experience in the United States—finding a new home, learning a new language, dealing with discrimination, pursuing the American Dream, and building bridges instead of walls. The album features collaborations with Raul Midón, Alex Lacamoire, Mandy Gonzalez, Gaby Moreno, Antonio Sánchez, among others; and with liner notes by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote: "Jaime Lozano has made you a hell of a mosaic. The album establishes Jaime as a force to be reckoned with in musical theater, in Latin music, or wherever else he wants to go.” Jaime’s new album "Songs by an Immigrant Vol. 2" was released by award-winning label Concord Theatrical Recordings on September 15, 2023, with collaborations with artists such as Robin de Jesús, Eden Espinosa, Mandy Gonzalez, Melissa Barrera, Ana Villafañe, among many others. Currently, he is working on the third volume of this acclaimed album to be released on August 22, 2025. Jaime was also the creator, with his wife Florencia Cuenca, of the project “Broadway en Spanglish,” reimagining Broadway songs with a "mezcla" of Latin American music styles, touring around the United States, and with an album released by Concord Theatricals Recordings. Jaime was also the arranger, orchestrator, music director, and producer of the all-Latine Broadway stars concert “¡Viva Broadway! Hear Our Voices,” directed by Tony Award winner Sergio Trujillo and produced by The Broadway League and Playbill. In 2021 and 2023, Jaime repeats as arranger, orchestrator, and music director for the ¡Viva Broadway! concert performed live in Times Square with an audience of thousands of people as part of “Curtain Up” to celebrate Broadway. 

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Jaime is also one of the orchestrators for the In The Heights film directed by Jon M. Chu, and he appears with a cameo in the film adaptation of “Tick, Tick... Boom!” directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda as part of the iconic writers workshop scene among some of the greatest Broadway composers and writers such as Stephen Schwartz, Jason Robert Brown, Marc Shaiman, Jeanine Tesori, Dave Malloy, Tom Kitt, Helen Park, and others. 

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Other professional associations include his affiliation with the New York City-based non-profit organization R.Evolución Latina, where he serves as activist, teacher, music arranger, and head composer. Jaime is the artistic director and music producer of La Casita Recording Studio in Monterrey, Mexico, and director of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Musical Theatre Professional Company in Monterrey, Mexico, where he develops new musicals.  Jaime was part of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He is currently a voting member of the Latin GRAMMY and GRAMMY Awards, and he is a proud member of BMI, The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., and American Federation of Musicians Local 802.