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Jack Heifner (Book) is best known for Vanities, a new musical, which ran for five years in New York and became one of the longest running plays in Off-Broadway history. He is also the author of Patio/Porch, Natural Disasters, Running On Empty, Bargains, Jumping for Joy, Boy’s Play, Home Fires, Heartbreak, Comfort And Joy, The Lemon Cookie, Dwarf Tossing and other plays produced in New York, Los Angeles and theatres around the country. Mr. Heifner has written the book to six musicals, including Leader Of The Pack on Broadway. He has also written for television and film.

David Kirshenbaum (Music and Lyrics) is the composer-lyricist for Party Come Here (book by Daniel Goldfarb), which was performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival in the summer of 2007. Other productions include Summer of ’42 (book by Hunter Foster) and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus (book by Myles McDonnell). Current/upcoming projects include Sing me a Happy Song, a new revue (in collaboration with songwriter George Stritt) and an original musical he is writing with Joe DiPietro. Kirshenbaum has received grants from the Jonathan Larson Foundation as well as a writer’s residency at Goodspeed Musicals through the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. The 2-CD album of his scores from Summer of ’42 was recently released by JAY Records.

Judith Ivey (Director): has been awarded the Tony Award twice, the Drama Desk Award twice, the OBIE Award, the Dramalogue award twice and she was honored with the Topaz Award from Women in Film-Dallas. She has also been honored by the Drama League of New York three times, received an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, Illinois State University, and most recently, was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Judy has starred in four TV series, Designing Women being the most memorable and has, been nominated for one Emmy Award and starred or been featured in over 40 films including the 2006 Clint Eastwood film, Flags of our Fathers. Judith performed solo, portraying 12 different women in Women on Fire by Irene O'Garden and directed by Mary B. Robinson at the Cherry Lane Theatre. For this performance, she received the Sydney Kingsley/Madge Evans Award from the Dramatists' Guild, and a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Solo Performance. Judith also directed Yeardley Smith in her one-woman show, MORE, off-Broadway. And in July 2004, Judith starred as Desiree in A Little Night Musical for the LA Opera, opposite Victor Garber.

Dan Knechtges (Choreographer): Broadway: Spelling Bee, 110 in the Shade, Xanadu. Regional: Godspell (Paper Mill); The Boys From Syracuse (CenterStage), Vanities (Theatre Works, CA); The Girl in the Frame (Goodspeed); The Wiz, Cats (Hangar Theatre); Mame, A Funny Thing… (Surflight Theatre); Don Giovanni (Indianapolis Opera); Carousel, West Side Story (Opera Illinois); The Mikado, HMS Pinafore (Blue Hill Troupe). TV/Film: It’s a Wonderful Night (Fatboy Slim), Palindromes (Todd Solondz). http://www.danknechtges.com

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