Ed DuRanté graduated from NYU’s Graduate Film Program where he was awarded the Graduate/Professional Opportunity Fellowship, NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where he received the ASCAP Foundation Yip Harburg Scholarship and Yale University. He was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Filmmaking. Most recently, he was commissioned by London's Theatre Royal Stratford East to write the musical adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" with composer Fred Carl.