Brad Alexander's music has been featured on VH1, Showtime, Sony Records and at theaters across the country. He wrote the music for TheatreworksUSA’s Just So Stories, Lilly’s Big Day (from If You Give A Pig A Pancake), the upcoming I Have To Go, and Click, Clack, Moo, coming soon to the Lucille Lortel Theater and directed by John Rando. Brad and collaborator Adam Mathias won the 2008 Richard Rodgers Award and 2007 Jerry Bock Award for See Rock City & Other Destinations, which premiered at Barrington Stage Company and was recently workshopped with Transport Group Theatre Company. Brad is a member of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, National Academy of Popular Music, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and The Dramatists Guild of America. http://www.bradalexander.com - CEC I, CEC II

Eli Bolin is the music director, songwriter, and a founding member of the Striking Viking Story Pirates, a NYC-based Arts-Education group that turns stories written by kids into songs and sketches. In the last year, the Story Pirates have taught and performed in L.A., Boston, Houston, Florida & the Kennedy Center for President Obama's inauguration. Eli graduated from Northwestern University, where he composed the off-Broadway and international hit I Sing! with Sam Forman. Their children's musical Schmoozy Togetherness just premiered in July at the Williamstown Theatre Festival as the festival's first-ever original children's musical. Eli also recently released his first solo album, Lemonade and wrote music for Kristen Schaal's special on Comedy Central. http://elibolin.net and http://storypirates.org - CEC I

Bobby Cronin is the composer/writer of B.R.A.T.T. Camp, which was recently produced at Chicago's LaRed Music Theatre. He is also the composer/lyricist for ‘Til Death Do Us Part and an untitled Kate Pazakis vehicle with book by Harry McEwan. His musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol written with Angelyn Benson has had five regional productions and a mini-tour. He also wrote a new book for the Ergo Theatre Company revival of Personals and co-wrote the musical That’s Andy. A member of ASCAP and graduate of Yale University, Cronin’s music has been performed in various venues from NYC to Japan, including Symphony Space, Lincoln Center and The Minskoff Theatre. http://bobbycronin.com - CEC I

Carmel Dean is currently music directing American Idiot (the Green Day punk opera) at Berkeley Rep, and prior to that was the Musical Director for Everyday Rapture at Second Stage Theatre, with Sherie Rene Scott. Her vocal arrangements were heard in Vanities, A New Musical and she was the Vocal Arranger and Associate Musical Director of the Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Her compositions and arrangements have been performed in concerts and cabarets in NYC and her native Australia, and on the second season of Disney TV's Johnny & the Sprites. Most recently, her work can be heard on Chita Rivera's "And Now I Swing" CD. Carmel is a proud graduate of NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. http://www.myspace.com/carmeldeanmusic - CEC II

Sam Forman co-wrote (with composer Eli Bolin) the musical I Sing! (A cast recording of the York Theatre Production is available in stores worldwide from Jay Records). Other plays and musicals include: The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (The Lion Theatre, dir. Sam Gold; Theater J, Washington DC dir. Shirley Serotsky), Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival, dir. Johanna McKeon), The Grille Room (Cherry Lane Mentor Project dir. Thomas Kail), Quarterlife (workshop dir. Mark Brokaw), Please Stop Talking (Cherry Lane Theatre, dir. Erwin Maas), Fringical! (Ars Nova, dir. Thomas Kail) and The Quiet Game (Hangar Theatre, Ithaca NY, dir. Daniel Kramer). Upcoming: Broadway’s Next Season (dir. Alex Timbers). - CEC I

Jonathan Reid Gealt's music has been featured in concerts and venues in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Manila, Japan, Australia, London, and New York including the Broadway in South Africa Benefits, UNSUNG 2007, Miracle on 13th Street, Performers for Peace, The MNNV series, Symphony Space, The Laurie Beechman, The Duplex, The Triad, and the MAKOR. He also wrote jingles for The Barn Theatre's 2003 summer season in Michigan. Jonathan is currently working on his debut musical, Forward. The Forward demo recordings have gained buzz online and around the city with such Broadway heavyweights as Kelli O'Hara, Liz Callaway, Lauren Kennedy, Shoshana Bean, Michael McElroy, Jonathan Groff, Michael Arden, Lewis Cleale, Tituss Burgess and more. Jonathan is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory. http://www.jonathan-reid-gealt.com and http://www.myspace.com/jrgealt - CEC II

Zina Goldrich was recently nominated for a Drama Desk award for Outstanding Music for the Off-Broadway show, Dear Edwina, written with lyricist Marcy Heisler. Other Goldrich & Heisler productions include Junie B. Jones (2005 Lucille Lortel Nomination, Best Musical), Allison Under the Stars (Workshop, Second Stage) and Adventures in Love (Ordway). Current projects with Heisler include Ever After, based on the 20th Century Fox film, and an original musical with author and fashion expert, Clinton Kelly. She is also the co-author of Goldrich and Heisler, Songbook Volume 1, now in its fifth printing. An accomplished television composer, Goldrich scores episodes of Nickelodeon’s Emmy Award-winning Wonderpets, as well as Third and Bird for the BBC. She has also written music for many Disney projects, including Johnny and the Sprites, Pooh’s Learning Adventures and The D Show. Goldrich was a co-recipient of ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers New Horizon Award, the Seldes-Kanin Fellowship, a Larson award and was a Joseph Papp Artist in Residence at Second Stage. She studied under the tutelage of Jerry Goldsmith at USC’s Scoring for Motion Picture and Television Program, and has played keyboards for numerous Broadway shows including Avenue Q, Oklahoma and Titanic, where she also conducted. http://www.goldrichandheisler.com - CEC I

Adam Gwon is a MacDowell Colony fellow, a musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and received the 2008 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater writing. A member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild, his works have been produced at the Kennedy Center, NAMT, NYMF and The Johnny Mercer Foundation. His song "Running" was nominated for a 2009 MAC Award. Gwon’s musical Ordinary Days will be produced in the 2009-2010 season at the Roundabout Theatre Company, and he’s currently at work on several new musical commissions. http://www.adamgwon.com - CEC I

Marcy Heisler has been collaborating with composer Zina Goldrich since 1993, providing book and lyrics for Dear Edwina (2009 Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Lyrics), Dear Edwina Junior, and the Lucille Lortel Award Nominated Junie B Jones. As a lyricist, Ms. Heisler has contributed songs for many Disney projects, including Johnny and The Sprites (Disney Television), Pooh’s Learning Adventures (Disney Toon Studios), and The D Show (Disney Interactive). As an adaptor, she wrote new versions of 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and The Jungle Book for Disney Theatricals. Other productions include Adventures in Love (Ordway Theatre), Allison Under the Stars (Workshop, Second Stage Theatre), and The Marcy and Zina Show, which tours around the country and Canada. Ms. Heisler was a co-recipient of ASCAP’S 2002 Richard Rodgers Theatre Award and was a Joseph Papp Artist in Residence at Second Stage Theatre. She recently collaborated with composer Michael Picton on songs for Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus 137th Edition. Current projects with Goldrich include a musical adaptation of 20th Century Fox’s Ever After and an original musical with bestselling author and fashion expert Clinton Kelly. Alphabet City Cycle, a collection of her poems set to music by Georgia Stitt, was recorded by Kate Baldwin and released by PS Classics this past Spring. She is also the co-author of Goldrich and Heisler, Songbook, Vol. 1, now in its fifth printing. An active member of the Publications Committee of the Dramatists Guild, Ms. Heisler is a contributing writer to Dramatist magazine. She graduated with High Honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program and previously studied acting at Northwestern University. http://www.goldrichandheisler.com - CEC I

Rick Hip-Flores has recently played in the orchestras of Billy Elliot, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Spelling Bee. As a musical director and conductor, credits include High School Musical (MUNY), Singin’ in the Rain (North Shore Music Theatre), Jacques Brel (Zipper Theatre), Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Actors’ Playhouse), Shakespeare on Broadway (Symphony Space), 8 by Tenn (Hartford Stage), Henry and Mudge, A Christmas Carol (TheatreworksUSA) and numerous productions for Musicals Tonight. As a composer and lyricist, Rick has written songs for Neon Mirage (Humana Festival, 2006), A Tooth Fairy Tale, My New York (Vital Theater), Dido and Aeneas (Prospect Theater), Tartuffe, As You Like It (Worth Street Players) and the Columbia University Varsity Show. His songs have been recently featured in the York Theater's NEO3 Concert, and 4@15 series. - CEC I

Joe Iconis is a Long Island native and a grad of the great NYU/Tisch Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. He is the proud recipient of a 2007 Ed Kleban Award, a 2006 Jonathan Larson Award, a Backstage Bistro Award, and a 1992 Garden City Elementary School Vocal Music Award. Joe is the author of The Black Suits (music and lyrics by Joe, book by Joe and Robert Maddock; SPF @ The Public Theater), ReWrite (Urban Stages), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (Lucille Lortel Theater) and Things to Ruin: the Songs of Joe Iconis (The Zipper). Other projects include Plastic! and Triumphant Baby! (both with Robert Maddock). The Joe Iconis Rock and Roll Jamboree has played to sold out crowds at venues all over the city, including Joe's Pub, The Laurie Beechman Theater, and Ars Nova. http://www.mrjoeiconis.com/ - CEC II

Creighton Irons is a composer/lyricist from beautiful Chapel Hill, NC. His musicals include aliveinsignificance (2001), Ran Together (2003) and Soul Notes (2005). His original songs have been presented by William Finn at Barrington Stages and performed across NYC (Joe’s Pub, ArsNova, Theater Barn, Sage Theater, and others). Factory Girls, a new musical written with collaborator Sean Mahoney, has been workshopped at the American Conservatory Theater and at Goodspeed Musicals’ Festival of New Artists, and is featured in NAMT’s 2009 Festival of New Musicals. Irons received his BA from UNC-Chapel Hill (Morehead Scholar 2005) and his MFA from NYU-Tisch’s Musical Theater Writing Program. http://www.creightonirons.com - CEC II

Anna Jacobs wrote the music for Pop! (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2009) and Stella and the Moon Man (Sydney Theatre Company/ Theatre of Image/ Australian Youth Orchestra, 2005), which won a Helpmann Award. Current projects include music for Harmony, Kansas, about a gay men’s chorus in rural Kansas, and lyrics for inclusion in Shooting from the Hip, a song cycle commissioned to open the 2011 Sydney Festival. M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch; B.Mus (Honors I) Composition, University of Sydney; Member: Dramatists Guild of America. - CEC II

Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk have been awarded the Jonathan Larson Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and are members of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced workshop, ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. Separately, Kait Kerrigan is the 2009 recipient of the Kleban Award for Most Promising Musical Theater Librettist and Brian Lowdermilk has been awarded the Richard Rogers and Alan Menken awards for his works. They have written numerous musicals together including The Unauthorized Autobiography of Sam Brown, Tales from the Bad Years, and their off-Broadway debut Henry and Mudge. http://kerrigan-lowdermilk.com - CEC I, CEC II

Peter Lerman is a composer and lyricist whose musicals include Back There, To Memphis (with the intention of returning) and Problem Child. In August 2009, he performed a solo concert of his songs at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. He is a graduate of Columbia University, where he wrote music and lyrics for the Columbia Varsity Show. Peter is currently working on an album and an original musical. http://www.myspace.com/peterlerman - CEC I, CEC II

Sean Mahoney is a composer, lyricist, and bookwriter who was raised in North Conway, NH. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received a B.A. in English from UNH. He spent ten years building concurrent careers in both music and education, developing a bi-coastal business as a DJ, guitarist, and independent record producer while teaching and coaching at various public and private schools, including a two-year stint as the head men’s lacrosse coach at Domincian University of California. He moved to New York in 2006 to receive his MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Some recent pieces include Factory Girls (co-book, music, and lyrics with Creighton Irons), Sweet Cassandra - A Greek Rock Opera (co-book, music, and lyrics with Amy Burgess), Diaper Derby (music, book and lyrics by Janet Allard) and Skitown, a movie musical. His works have been performed and staged at Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub, Birdland, Goodspeed Musicals, American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Barrington Stages, CAP 21, and Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Sean plays in two rock bands, maintains a thriving DJ business, and produces records for singer/songwriters and fellow musical theater writers. He lives in the East Village in New York City with his wife Emily and son Tee. http://www.seanmahoneymusic.com - CEC II

Adam Mathias received the 2007 Jerry Bock Award and the 2008 Richard Rogers Award, both with composer Brad Alexander for their musical See Rock City & Other Destinations. He conceived and co-wrote the 2004 NY Fringe hit The Passion of George W. Bush (also Joe's Pub). Recent: Hamlet: What Dreams May Come (an adaptation for 4 actors.) Upcoming: The Dirty Hippie Jam Band Project (with songwriters Dan Israel and Phoebe Kreutz) and Life is a Dream (with composer Oran Eldor.) He is a member of the BMI Workshop and an alum of the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. http://www.adamup.com - CEC I, CEC II

Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen have written The Burnt Part Boys (book by Mariana Elder, finalist for the American Theatre Critics New Play Award, co-produced by the Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons Spring 2010) and The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (book by Joe Calarco, world premiere at Barrington Stage Co., Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Their song cycle, Fugitive Songs, received a 2008 Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Revue. Chris and Nathan apply for many awards and grants, and sometimes even win (Jonathan Larson, Richard Rodgers, Daryl Roth, and Kitty Carlisle Hart). They are also co-creators and contributors to the monthly NYC songwriting hootenanny Sagebrush Valentine. Miller and Tysen began their collaboration together at New York University where they received their MFA's in musical theatre writing. Recently profiled in The Dramatist Magazine under "Fifty to Watch," current projects include Molly's Delicious (book by Craig Wright) for Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks, an adaptation of the popular children’s novel Tuck Everlasting (book by Claudia Shear) and a new musical commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. http://www.myspace.com/millerandtysen - CEC II

J. Oconer Navarro is an award-winning composer/lyricist and musical director based in NYC. As a writer, he is the recipient of a 2009 Musical Theatre Society of Emerson College New Works Festival production, 2008 NYU Alumni Grant made possible by the Frederick Loewe Foundation, 2007 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant, 2006 Margo Lion Award, and 2005 Paulette Goddard. He was musical director for the acclaimed Adding Machine Off-Broadway, and some favorite NYC music department credits include: The Apple Tree, Curtains, Mary Poppins, Pig…Pancake, Rooms: a rock romance, plus countless readings, workshops, and concerts of new work. Regionally, he has served as musical director at Barrington Stage Company, The Hangar Theatre, Theatreworks (Palo Alto), Two River Theater Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and will make his Kennedy Center debut this fall. BS 2004 Vanderbilt University, MFA 2006 NYU. www.joconernavarro.com - CEC I

Joel B. New is an award-winning composer/lyricist and proud recipient of a 2008 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant. He has been praised as one of today’s “most exciting contemporary musical theatre writers.” (BroadwayWorld.com) Joel recently had a concert of his work produced at Lincoln Center as part of John F. Znidarsic’s acclaimed Songbook series. The evening boasted performances by Broadway’s Becca Ayers, Donna Lynne Champlin, Lisa Howard, Megan McGinnis, Jonathan Rayson, Tory Ross, and Tony Yazbeck. His projects include Awakening (with composer J. Oconer Navarro and director Jen Bender), Looking Around / Looking Back (with singer TJ Moss and director Jessica Hutchinson) and Stand Clear. His work has been seen and developed at Dreamlight Theatre Company, Oklahoma City University, Ars Nova, Margo Lion, Ltd., Clear Space Productions, Broadway Cares, NYMF, Scott Alan’s “Monday Nights, New Voices,” Lincoln Center, and many others. He’s currently preparing for a workshop of Stand Clear. Joel holds an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a BM in Musical Theatre Performance from OCU’s Bass School of Music. http://www.joelbnew.com - CEC I

Ryan Scott Oliver is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and wrote the music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award Winner, at Playwrights Horizons July 2009 starring Jane Krakowski, dir. by Michael Greif), Darling (Pace New Musicals 2009), the song cycle Out of My Head, Quit India (commissioned by UCLA), and the music for Angus Oblong's The Debbies. A collection of his work, Rated RSO, was recently seen at Joe's Pub, where it will return January 2010 following an engagement at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). His work has also been heard on the hit YouTube TV show The Battery’s Down ("This is Your Life" among others) and in showcases presented by Summer Play Festival (SPF), The York Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, William Finn & Barrington Stages, New York Theatre Barn, Monday Nights New Voices, and the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles. Ryan is a 2007 Dramatists Guild Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including the first-ever ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing, the Margo Lion Award for Excellence in Adaptation (Mrs. Sharp, with Kirsten A. Guenther), the Looking Glass Theatre Favorite Production Award (Out of My Head) and the John Denver New Composers Award. Currently he is the Executive Director of the Pasadena (PUSD) Musical Theatre Program in California, produces The Spotlight Cabaret in New York City, and is at work developing a commission by Broadway Across America as well as We the Peoplefor TheatreWorksUSA, directed by Alex Timbers, which will premiere Off-Broadway in 2010. B.A. Music Composition, UCLA; M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch, a proud member of A.S.C.A.P. http://www.ryanscottoliver.com - CEC II

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul began their collaboration as freshmen at The University of Michigan. They are the winners of a 2007 Jonathan Larson Award and at age 21 became the youngest recipients in the history of the foundation. They were honored as 2007-2008 Dramatist Guild Fellows and were listed as part of the “50 To Watch Upcoming Playwrights and Composers” by The Dramatists Magazine. The team’s musical revue, EDGES, has been performed numerous times at various professional venues and colleges throughout the country. Pasek and Paul are writers for John Tartaglia’s Disney Channel television series, Johnny and the Sprites and contributed music to Off-Broadway’s upcoming White Noise (A Cautionary Tale) which won Talkin’ Broadway’s 2006 Summer Theatre Festival Citation for Outstanding Original Score. They have recently played sold-out shows at Joe’s Pub and Ars Nova in New York City featuring a host of Broadway talents and were invited to participate in the first ever Johnny Mercer Songwriting Festival funded by the American Musical Theatre Project. They are currently developing several original book musicals. http://www.pasekandpaul.com - CEC I

Jason Salzman and Ryan Cunningham met in the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Their thesis musical, I Love You Because, went on to be professionally produced Off-Broadway, earned a Drama Desk nomination for the team, spawned a cast album on PS Classics, and garnered a licensing deal with Theatrical Rights Worldwide, resulting in productions both nationally and internationally. They continue their collaboration with many projects, including: Queen Esther, a family musical comedy based on the story of Purim and commissioned by the Kaufman Center; Next Thing You Know, a song cycle currently in development with director John Simpkins. They are contributing songwriters on the Disney Channel's Johnny and the Sprites. Their song "Just Not Now," from I Love You Because, was featured on Lauren Kennedy's new solo album Here and Now. Cunningham and Salzman are both members of the BMI Advanced Writing Workshop, ASCAP, and the Dramatist Guild. - CEC II

Jeremy Schonfeld is a singer / songwriter / composer / lyricist. A benefit concert version of his musical Drift was recently performed at BB Kings starring Adam Pascal, Julia Murney, Terrence Mann, Jarrod Emick, and Adam Kantor, among others, and will be remounted at North Carolina’s “Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy,” September 2009. Upcoming theatrical projects include the development of a new musical with director and producer Daisy Prince (Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years) and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman. Other recent projects include: the album 37 Notebooks, which featured the vocal talents of Shoshana Bean, Tracie Thoms, Amy Spanger, Lauren Kennedy, Luther Creek, and Kate Shindle, among others; the feature film Clear Blue Tuesday; as well as the musicals Home and innumerable atrainplays; and the Broadway Dreams Foundation’s “Broadway Bootcamp,” for which Jeremy serves on the Board of Directors and as Musical Director. Schonfeld has also contributed original music for numerous benefit concerts including “Defying Inequality,” “Broadway in South Africa,” “The Pink Campaign on Broadway,” and “Broadway for a New America,” among others. Jeremy’s recording, “Song for New Orleans,” is currently being used as part of a recruitment video for the American Red Cross. - CEC II