Marshall is a director, writer and composer for musical theater, plays, animated films. He directed, composed, and co-wrote the Off-Broadway musicals Who’s Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War (New York Times Critics’ Pick) and the now internationally licensed Triassic Parq (Ovation Award, Best Musical). Other: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (Director, DR2); Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Director, optioned by Alchemation); Claudio Quest (winner of six 2015 NYMF Awards for Excellence); Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals); Loch Ness (optioned by Victoria Lang, Mark Schwartz and Martian Entertainment); VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark starring Wayne Brady (Film, Original Songs). Other Directing Work: Sequence (Adirondack Theater Festival); The Reunion Experience; Wonderland (Atlantic Theater Company); Eudaemonia; Uncle Pirate; Stuck; The 49 Project; Thursday; With Kings in the Back; Bat Boy; Escape Artists; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Developed work with Dreamworks Animation, Goodspeed Musicals, RKO Stage, PBS Kids. Lots of cool stuff in development. Graduate Yale University.

A.D. is a playwright and lyricist living in New York. He co-wrote with Marshall the Off Broadway musical, Who’s Your Baghdaddy? or how i started the iraq war, which was a NY Times Critic’s Pick, and the Australian production of which is now available on BroadwayHD. Other work includes the play The Three Times She Knocked, which won the New York Fringe award for Best Playwrighting, The Chocolate Tree (Stages Rep, NAMT), Where It’s At (Yale, NYCFringe), Thursday (Yale), and Dance of the Fireflies (Yale, NYC). www.adpenedo.com

Misha Shields is a theater choreographer working in the New York and Boston areas. She is a Chita Rivera Award Nominee for Best Choreography for her work in the Off-Broadway production of, BAGHDADDY, and winner of the BroadwayWorld CNY Award for Best Choreography For A Professional Production for her work in, LOCH NESS. Some recent credit highlights include, PRIVATE GOMER JONES (Goodspeed Opera House, workshop), LOCH NESS (The Rev Theater), ONCE (Bucks County Playhouse), BAGHDADDY (St. Luke’s Theater), WONDERLAND (Atlantic Theater Company), WITCH, I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, & YERMA (Huntington Theatre). Misha loves storytelling through movement and strives to find moments of comedy, dramatic simplicity, and surprise through her work. The Boston Globe states that Misha’s choreography for Company One’s production of VIETGONE, is “…one of the funniest fight sequences I’ve ever seen onstage.”, and BroadwayWorld calls Misha’s work, “beautiful” and “innovative”. Whether it is a small play, huge musical, or original dance piece, Misha connects actors to their bodies and taps them into their characters through movement and body awareness. She loves crafting a unique physical language for every show to sculpt the arch of the production through what is unspoken. Misha was a lyricist with the BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theater Songwriting Workshop, and is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory.

www.mishashields.com

Madeline Benson is a music director, arranger, composer, and instrumentalist based in New York. MD credits (selected): Bhangin’ It (La Jolla Playhouse), We Live In Cairo (ART), Rags Parkland… (Ars Nova), Ragtime on Ellis Island, An Octoroon (TFANA), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane), FUTURITY (Ars Nova/Soho Rep), Skin of Our Teeth (TFANA), Loch Ness (the Rev), Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (ATF), Agent 355 (CTC). Broadway credits (selected): Waitress, SIX, War Paint. Madeline musically adapted Disney Theatrical’s Frozen Jr. and Descendants. B.A. Classical Civilizations from Harvard University.

Yu-Hsuan Chen is a Los Angeles based set and production designer born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her MFA in Design for Stage and Film at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Working among theater, film, TV, event and exhibition, she is always excited to work with collaborators to tell stories through space and visuals, creating a world for compelling souls to live in.

Her film credits include the production designer of feature film “American Girl” (美國女孩), which won 5 awards in the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, including the non-competition Audience Choice Award and the International Federation of Film Critics Prize. (Golden Horse Film Festival is considered the biggest film festival in the Mandarin-speaking world) She is also nominated for Best Art Design in the 2022 Taipei Film Festival. Her production design “Palm Trees and Power Lines ” premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it won an award for Directing, Editing and Screenwriting in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Her production design “JIE-JIE” won the HBO Asian Pacific American Visionary Award and is distributed by HBO. Production design Fashion film “Stuck Inside” is screened in Paris at the A Shaded View on Fashion Film festiva and took down the emerging talent award. Production design “Pregnant” won Best Production Design in First Run Festival. Production design “Music Everywhere” is shortlisted at the AICP Awards and won a prize at the Porsche Ad Awards in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Selected theater credits include: Measure For Measure (The Public Mobile Unit), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater / 2nd Stage), Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre, CT), What To Send Up When It Goes Down (ART/NY Theatre, NYC), The Homecoming Queen & Nomad Motel (Atlantic Theater Company, NYC), Dancing at Lughnasa & M. Butterfly & Great Expectations (Everyman Theatre, MD), Dying In Boulder (La MaMa, NYC) Inanimate & Locked Up Bitches (The Flea Theater, NYC), Agnus (The Lion Theatre, NYC), SKiNfolK (Ars Nova, NY) and many more. She was also the associate set designer on SIX the Musical, and assistant set designer on Broadway shows including The Nap, Tootsie and Kiss Me Kate. Her design for “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” won the 2020 Obie Award for Outstanding Set Design and is nominated for 2020 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Set Design.

She is a proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 800 & 829

Jake DeGroot (Lighting Designer) Broadway: Oh, Hello. Off-Broadway: Kid Gorgeous (Radio City/Netflix); The Robber Bridegroom(Roundabout); SeaWife (Naked Angles, Drama Desk Nomination); Fly (New Victory); Julius Caesar (CSC); Two Class Acts (The Flea); Here’s Hoover (Les Freres Corbusier). Regional: The Wanderer (Papermill); Tommy (The Kennedy Center); The Temple Bombing (The Alliance Theatre); …Forum (Two River); Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Adirondack Theatre Festival); NY Stage and Film; Bucks County Playhouse; The Huntington; The Geffen; Cincinnati Playhouse; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Pasadena Playhouse; Williamstown; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; The Cape Playhouse. International: Theatre de la Ville, Paris; The National Theatre, London; National Theatre of Norway; TheatreWorks Singapore. Carnegie Mellon. www.jakedegroot.com

Costume Designer. Off-Broadway: Cullud Wattah, Public Theater; Lockdown, Rattlestick Playwrights, The Niceties, Manhattan Theatre Club; Dot, Vineyard Theatre. Select Regional credits include: 42nd Street, Goodspeed Musicals; Choir Boy, Steppenwolf; Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Children’s Theatre Company; Cosi Fan Tutte, Arizona Opera; Hometown to the World, Santa Fe Opera; Shutter Sisters, Old Globe; Darlin’ Cory, The Alliance Theater, Guys & Dolls, Steel Magnolias, Guthrie Theater; Toni Stone, Milwaukee Rep; The Color Purple, Portland Center Stage; The Wiz!, Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Award); A Raisin in the Sun, Indiana Rep; Nina Simone: Four Women, Arena Stage; The Purists, Huntington Theatre; In the Heights, Geva; Barbecue, Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Award); The Rape of Lucretia, Wolf Trap Opera; Much Ado About Nothing, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Assistant Costume Design TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Season 2, Amazon; “Daredevil,” Season 2, Netflix; “Boardwalk Empire,” Season 5, HBO. Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. KaraHarmonDesign.com

Nicholas Mahon is an Emmy nominated puppet and theatrical designer specializing in performer interactive pieces and character creation. Since 2004 he has worked on projects for Michael Curry Design, Walt Disney Entertainment, Universal Studios, The Jim Henson Company, Blue Man Group and many more. Most recent projects include Sesame Street Television (2013-present), Mother Of The Nation (Abu Dhabi 2016), Islamic Solidarity Games Opening Ceremony (Baku 2017) and 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (Pyeonchang). His work on the Baku 2015 European Games Opening Ceremony as Scenic Designer was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

DENNIS LEE BUSH (Magic and Special Effects Designer) has been designing and building magical effects for musical theater for over thirty years; Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Annie Get Your Gun, Godspell, Tommy, Pippin, Aladdin. His collaboration with Stephen Schwartz created an enchanting musical; Magic in the Music, which became an exclusive show for Princess Cruise Lines; Magic to Do.  Dennis is developing several shows: Celebrate… a whimsical love story told through the magic in the music of Three Dog Night, Madams of Magic, Flip This and Behind the Magic. He is thrilled to bring never-before-seen magic, illusions, and special effects to the wonderful story of LOCH NESS.

Stephen Kopel (Casting) Currently serves as casting director for Roundabout Theatre Company and C12 Casting in New York. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar; & Juliet; Shucked; Moulin Rouge!; A Christmas Carol; 1776; Jagged Little Pill;Caroline, or Change; Trouble in Mind; The Play That Goes Wrong;Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; The Lifespan of a Fact; Once; Amelie; Sunday in the Park with George; On a Clear Day… ;Kiss Me, Kate; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; On the Twentieth Century ;The People in the Picture; Noises Off; Harvey; She Loves Me; Holiday Inn; The Winslow Boy; Violet; The Road to Mecca; The Glass Menagerie; Brief Encounter; Anything Goes and The Scottsboro Boys.

Victoria Lang has enjoyed an award-winning producing career in theatre, television, film, concerts and podcasting. Recent Broadway productions include THE KITE RUNNER, FUNNY GIRL, PARADISE SQUARE (Tony nomination), TOOTSIE (Tony nomination), THE CHER SHOW, THE LIGHTNING THIEF, SYLVIA, 1984, and ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE. On the cutting edge of the best of Off Broadway she has produced such hits as FOUND: A New Musical, SILENCE! The Musical (Best Musical: Off Broadway Alliance Award, Top 5 Musicals: Time Magazine), SHOUT! The Mod Musical, JOHNNY GUITAR (Best Off-Broadway Musical: Outer Critics Circle Award), MATT & BEN (Top 5 Plays: Time Magazine), and David Friedman’s LISTEN TO MY HEART (Drama Desk Award). West End productions include FUNNY GIRL (Olivier Award), BAT BOY and SHOUT! Upcoming Broadway: THE COTTAGE, JUDGMENT DAY, A FACE IN THE CROWD, LOCH NESS. Television: Live With Regis & Kathie Lee (3 Emmy nominations), Music Specials for PBS and A&E. Film: Macbeth in Manhattan (Showtime), Dark Tides & more. Podcast: FOUND on the Wondery network.

Victoria is a Founder and Co-President of Content of Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, a Founder and Co-President of Plus Media & Plus Entertainment and President of Lang Entertainment Group. Victoria attended Emerson College and graduated with a BFA in Theatre Arts Summa Cum Laude from Long Island University. She is a member of the Broadway and Off-Broadway Leagues, the Off Broadway Alliance, BAFTA and the Black Theatre Coalition.

Mark Schwartz is a Tony Award winning theatrical producer who has enjoyed a 40 year career in theatre production, at the Broadway Level.

He has been a Tony award voter for 28 years, and a member of the League of American theatre owners and producers, who embody the voting constituency for the awards.

He has been one of the lead producer’s on over 20 Broadway productions which have been nominated for over 40 Tony awards.

Some of the productions he has produced which have won the coveted Tony award, are “NINE” starring Raul Julia (5 Tonys including best musical) “MY ONE AND ONLY”, starring Tommy Tune and Twiggy ( 4 Tonys), “LA CAGE AUX FOLLES” (6 Tonys including best musical), “Zorba” starring Anthony Quinn, the Tony nominated production of “Dream” starring Leslie Ann Warren”, both the Broadway and West End productions of “JACKIE” (the life and times of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis) both the Off-Broadway and West End productions of the critically acclaimed “HEADWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH”, EPIC PROPORTIONS, (Starring Christen Chenoweth) the off-Broadway productions of “MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL”, (played for 8 years in NYC) and both the New York and West End productions of “SHOUT” (the mod musical).

Carl D. White is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer and general manager, who founded Martian Entertainment in 1997. Select credits include: THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL; THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG; THE NORMAL HEART (2011 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics’ Circle Award, Drama League Award); HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2014 Tony Award); PETER PAN GOES WRONG; THE COTTAGE; LOCH NESS; A WONDERFUL WORLD -The New Musical about the Life and Loves of Louis Armstrong; PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT; ALTAR BOYZ; [TITLE OF SHOW]; MATT & BEN; THE TEMPERAMENTALS; THE LAST SESSION, BARE and many others. He is a proud member of The Broadway League, The Off-Broadway League, and Mentor for The Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle Initiative – a program that seeks to aid BIPOC producers developing shows for the Broadway and Off-Broadway arenas.

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Gregory Rae is a Tony Award-winning producer based in New York. His theatrical credits include THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, ALLEGIANCE, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2014 Tony Award), A TIME TO KILL, KINKY BOOTS (2013 Tony Award, 2016 Olivier Award), CLYBOURNE PARK (2012 Tony Award), BARE (off-Broadway), and THE NORMAL HEART (2011 Tony Award). He is an executive producer of the films VIRGIN TERRITORY, HELLO AGAIN, THE GOLDFISH, CLUTTER, THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING, HELLO AGAIN, and co-executive producer of THE GREEN. He joined Carl White as a partner in Martian Entertainment LLC in 2013.

Gregory graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2000 with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College in 2014. He worked at Google as a software engineer in charge of log analysis until 2006. After leaving Google, he got involved in politics as one of the national leaders of Living Liberally, and has advised several campaigns for marriage equality around the country. In 2008, he was the technical lead for the No On Proposition 8 campaign in California, and in 2010 he served as treasurer of Fight Back New York, a political action committee that successfully targeted three New York state senators who had voted against marriage equality. Rae is the President of the Harvey Mudd College Alumni Association, and a board member of the Broad Stage. He is an emeritus board member of The Tank and Harvey Mudd College, and previously served on the board of The Production Farm. He is a full member of The Broadway League.