STEPHEN COLE (Director/Choreographer) is a theatre director, educator, actor, choreographer, and Vital Theatre Alum. He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing and Pedagogy from the University of Idaho and recently concluded five years as Education Director at Arizona Broadway Theatre, where he directed numerous productions and mentored hundreds of young artists. Directing credits include Pippin, The Drowsy Chaperone, Big Fish, A Year with Frog and Toad, The Best of Times: Jerry Herman (J2 Spotlight, Off-Broadway), Manhattan Rep, and The Newtwork NYC. He has also served as Associate Director for Disneys Newsies and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arizona Broadway Theatre) and Milk and Honey (J2 Spotlight).

David Mallamud (Composer) David Mallamud's music has been performed in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to The Kennedy Center and was recently heard Off-Broadway in the parody, Twilight: The Musical (New World Stages, directed by Gabriel Barre). He is currently working with playwright Philip Dawkins on the stage adaptation of the Dr. Seuss book, The Sneetches for The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis a violin concerto with Mike Mills (from R.E.M.) for Robert McDuffie and a CD of his music with The Albany Symphonys Dogs of Desire. Other theater credits include: Bill Nelsons All-Male Revue (Barrington Stages, directed by Bill Finn), The Strange Affair of Doctor Crippen (Theatre Building Chicago), and Man in the Iron Mask (Winner of Scene It, The Jerry Orbach Theater). Symphonic credits include performances by The Harrisburg Symphony, The Albany Symphony, The New World Symphony, and The Westchester Philharmonic. He has also co-orchestrated a number of shows with Kim Scharnberg for director Vincent Marini at The Flat Rock Playhouse. Education: B.M. Eastman, M.M. Juilliard, M.F.A. NYU/Tisch Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. www.davidmallamud.com

Peter Morris (Book & Lyrics) is the co-author and co-lyricist of Howard Crabtrees Whoop-Dee-Doo!, winner of the 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue. His musicalization of The Adventures of Mottel, based on Sholom Aleichems last book, was commissioned by the Kaufman Cultural Arts Center of New York and performed at Merkin Hall in March 2007. Other produced works include Frankly, Scarlett, a farce co-authored with Phillip George, about the making of Gone with the Wind The Remarkable Ruth Fields, a musical comedy about the trials and tribulations of a bearded lady, which received five 1992 Backstage Bistro Awards Listen to the Wind, the 1995 revival of the 1955 British musical for which he fashioned a new libretto Escape from Pterodactyl Island, seen on the London Fringe and at the NY Fringe Festival and High Hair & Jalapenos, an original musical revue lampooning Texas. His musical version of William Makepeace Thackerays fairy tale novella The Rose and the Ring premiered in London in December 2001, and had an international tour of Canada, England and Australia in 2004. He has written numerous one-act plays, winning the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition for The Worlds Longest Kiss. His full-length play No Place Like Home premiered at South Carolinas Trustus Theatre in 2004. He served as script consultant for My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, which was performed at NYs City Center and subsequently aired on PBS. Currently, his musical for young audiences, Kid Frankenstein, will be produced by NYCs Vital Theatre in October 2017 and his dance musical, Gotta Getta Girl, is under option to Amas Musical Theater. Mr. Morris is an alumnus of the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop.