MARK SALTZMAN (Book and Lyrics) began his career in New York with the Muppets. His Sesame Street sketches and songs (including “Caribbean Amphibian”) earned him seven Emmy Awards, but behind Bert and Ernie’s back, Mark was writing shows for Soho Rep, 13th Street Theater, and the Village Gate, where he co-wrote the long-running revue A, My Name is Alice. Mark collaborated with Jerry Herman on the CBS holiday movie Mrs. Santa Claus starring Angela Lansbury. For the movies, he wrote The Adventures of Milo and Otis, Three Ninjas Kick Back and screenplays for SONY, Universal, and Disney. His TV movie, The Red Sneakers, directed by and starring Gregory Hines, was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. In 1997, Mark’s musical, The Tin Pan Alley Rag opened at the Pasadena Playhouse, received five Ovation Award nominations, including Best Musical, and went on to play at New York’s Roundabout Theater. Other stage works:  Falling for Make Believe, Lorenz Hart’s Life Story, (Colony Theater), and Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood (Laguna Playhouse), optioned for the movies by the Little Film Company. Mark is a graduate of Cornell University.  More information at.

JUSTIN ROSS COHEN (Director/Choreographer) recently directed and produced the documentary Paul Draper: The Aristocrat Of Tap for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts. Last year he directed and produced a film version of Bill Russell and Janet Hood's Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens starring Nathan Lane, Fran Drescher, Cynthia Nixon, Richard Chamberlain and forty-six other stars of stage and screen. His film Waiting For Yvette starring Wendie Malick won an Audience Favorite nod at both the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and on LOGO/TV. Off- Broadway he directed and choreographed I Could Go On Lip-Synching! starring Lypsinka (Provincetown Playhouse, Rattlestick Theater), About Time (Jose Quintero) and Club 82 (LaMama). He is a founding member of Lincoln Center Theater's Director's Lab and a cast member of the original Broadway productions of A Chorus Line and Pippin. He recreated the role of Greg for the film version of A Chorus Line.    

JOSEPH SHROPE (Costume Design) is grateful to be designing alongside his friend and mentor Fabio Toblini, whom he has assisted on productions with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Arizona Ballet and as the associate for Pips Island (Off-Broadway). Recent design credits include Steel Magnolias, Cabaret, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Gallery Players) and The Floorshow (Combustion Collective). Joseph is currently working with Martha Graham Dance Company overseeing the rebuild of their costume collection lost in Hurricane Sandy. 

WALT SPANGLER (Set Design) designs for theater, opera and dance across the nation and around the globe. Broadway: Tuck Everlasting, A Christmas Story, Escape to Margaritaville, Scandalous, Desire Under The Elms, Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway: More than two decades of work for Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, The Signature, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Classic Stage. Walt is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. walt@waltspangler.com

KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Design) creates lighting for the theatre, television and architecture.  Among his 100 Broadway shows are the original production of Sweeney Todd, the current Chicago, the longest-running American musical in history. Ken’s craft has illuminated many spectacular events and venues including such landmarks as New York’s Tavern on the Green and 54 Below, Awards include the Tony, the Lumen (architecture), and the Ace (television). In 2015, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. 

STEVE ORICH  (Music Supervision/Arrangements/Orchestrations) Broadway: Jersey Boys (Tony Nomination - Best Orchestrations), The Cher Show. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Hollywood Bowl, La Jolla Playhouse, Theatreworks, Asolo Rep, The Goodman, Goodspeed. TV: Composer for numerous documentaries, sitcoms, movies and specials. Recordings: dozens of albums, including the Grammy-winning Jersey Boys cast album. His orchestrations have been performed by the National Symphony, the Boston Pops, at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House and around the world.

AARON GANDY  (Music Director, Keyboard) NY: The Lion King, Urinetown, Just Jim Dale, The Shaggs, Dora the Explorer Live! (Radio City Music Hall), Principal Pops conductor for South Shore Symphony. Other concert appearances include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Paley Center, Chicago's Grant Park and the Hollywood Bowl.

CAROL HANZEL (Casting Director) Broadway: Swing!, Sally Marr and Her Escorts. National Tours: The Great Divorce, Swing!, Defending the Caveman, Girl’s Night. Off-Broadway: Lolita, My Love, The Day Before Spring, Christmas in Hell, Desperate Measures, Cagney, Marry, Harry, Shadowlands, The Screwtape Letters, Martin Luther on Trial, Red Eye of Love,  Hellman v. McCarthy, Mardi Gras/The Last Word, Cougar: The Musical, Ionescopade, My Vaudeville Man, Wanda’s World, Signs of Life, Dr. Sex. Regional credits: The Wake, Linger, Brick City, Skeleton Crew, Las Cruces, Water by the Spoonful, People Before the Park, By the Water, Soldier’s Heart, Janice Underwater, Clybourne Park, Farragut North, Divorce Party, Backwards in High Heels, Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods, Dracula, Hats!, Flight of the Lawnchair Man, The Good  Counselor, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Lizzie Borden. TV: Pinkalicious & Peteriffic, Peg+Cat, The Wonder Pets, Hi-5 and countless commercials.

CHRISTINE VIEGA (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Memphis.  Off-Broadway: God Shows Up, A Class Act, Our Town, Adding Machine, Shout!, Homer’s Odyssey, Close Ties, Masked.  Tours: Fly, Footloose, Color Me Dark, Romeo and Juliet, One-Man Star Wars Trilogy.  Regional: Vermont Shakespeare Company, Studio Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Caldwell Theatre Company