Robert Lopez and Jeff MarxOriginal Concept, Music and Lyrics

Robert shared a 2004 Tony Award with Jeff Marx for their score for Avenue Q. He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2008 for his music on Nick Jr’s The Wonder Pets, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2007 for a song he co-wrote in a musical episode of the NBC sitcom Scrubs. His short adaptaion of the Pixar classic Finding Nemo: The Musical, co-written with his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, plays (five shows a day) in Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. Upcoming projects: Up Here, an original musical also written with his wife and commissioned by the Roundabout Theatre on Broadway; and an original show co-written with the creators of South Park.

Jeff’s first job when he moved to New York City was being the intern in Cameron Mackintosh’s office.A few weeks into the job, he was fired. A few years later, he got a job being the intern at the production offices of Sesame Street. A few weeks into that job, he was fired. Both of these experiences were personally devastating to Jeff and, both times, he thought he’d never get over it. But about a decade later, things turned around when he co-wrote this musical, based somewhat on Sesame Street, and Cameron Mackintosh ended up producing it. Life sure is weird and unpredictable, huh?

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Jeff WhittyBook

Jeff received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Avenue Q. His other plays include: The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, The Hiding Place, Balls, Suicide Weather and The Plank Project. Theatres producing his work include: the Atlantic Theater Company, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,

the New Group, the Vineyard Theater and South Coast Repertory. He is currently developing the libretto for a stage musical of Bring It On, hitting American theatres in the summer of 2010, as well as the libretto for a musical version of Tales of the City with music by Jake Shears and John Garden of Scissor Sisters.

Jason MooreDirector

Broadway: Shrek – The Musical, Avenue Q and Steel Magnolias. Carnegie Hall: Jerry Springer – The Opera. Off-Broadway: Speech and Debate (Roundabout Theatre Company); Avenue Q (Vineyard Theatre); Guardians (Culture Project) and The Crumple Zone (Rattlestick).

Associate directing: Les Misérables (Broadway, USA tour) and Ragtime (Vancouver). Writer: The Floatplane Notebooks (Charlotte Repertory Theatre). Television: episodes of Dawson’s Creek, Everwood, One Tree Hill and Brothers and Sisters. Jason has a BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.