Freya Catrin Smith (Book, Music, and Lyrics) and Jack Williams (Music and Lyrics), award-winning composers and lyricists. Awards for Ride: VAULT Festival Awards for Outstanding New Work and People’s Choice, Writers’ Guild Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Bookwriting, WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Off West End Production. Writing credits: Ride (Leicester Curve, Southwark Playhouse, Charing Cross Theatre, West End/Garrick Theatre, VAULT Festival), The Limit (VAULT Festival winner for People’s Choice and Outstanding New Work), song cycle Part A (Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show), Echoes (in development, with Adam Lenson and Katy Lipson); performances at The Other Palace, The Roundhouse, Leicester Square Theatre; development with drama schools including The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, ArtsEd. Other honors: 2023 Fred Ebb Award, Chamber Musical Prize, Cameron Mackintosh Composer Residency finalists, Stiles + Drewe Best New Song Prize finalists, MTI Mentorship Award finalists; for Smith, a MGC Futures Bursary to develop new work.

Jennifer Jancuska (Choreography) New York–based director/choreographer. The Old Globe: The Tale of Despereaux. Regional: Berkeley Rep, The Public, City Center, Dallas Theater Center, Goodspeed, Little Island, Ars Nova, more. Broadway: resident choreographer for Hamilton. Other work: Founding Artistic Director of BringAbout Development (a nonprofit development and production company dedicated to developing dance as a narrative tool early in the process of writing new musicals and plays); creator of the sold out, biannual event BC BEAT (described by The New York Times as the placeto “step into the spotlight and re-imagine the possibilities for dance in musical theatre”); educator (NYU GMTWP, Syracuse, Ithaca College, Pace, more); SDC member. Honors: named to the Broadway Women’s Fund 5th Annual Women to Watch List 2024. Education: Cornell University. jenniferjancuska.com, @jencuska on Instagram.

Jamie Platt (Lighting Design) Lighting designs: The Last Five Years (West End, international tour), Jellyfish (National Theatre), Word-Play (Royal Court Theatre), Something Rotten!, Suddenly Last Summer, Sister Act (English Theatre Frankfurt), Nineteen Gardens, Octopolis, Either, Paradise, Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre), Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre), The Children, Moonlight and Magnolias (Nottingham Playhouse), Sleeping Beauty, Mythic (Charing Cross Theatre), The Gap, Head Over Heels, Vincent River (Hope Mill Theatre), That Face (Orange Tree Theatre). Associate lighting designs: Frozen, Six (West End, international), Ink, The Night of the Iguana, The Starry Messenger, Bitter Wheat (West End).

Matt Powell (Video Design) (they/she/he) U.S. debut. West End: Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Public Domain (Vaudeville). U.K. regional: Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood (Watermill), Exhibitionists (Kings Head Theatre), I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life (Mercury; Stage Awards finalist for Innovation), Rebecca (Charing Cross), Animal (tour; Offie finalist), Rumi (London Coliseum, D’asha Performance Festival), A-Typical Rainbow (Turbine), Flight (Royal College), Bloody Difficult Women (Riverside). Digital: on hope (The Other Palace), MTPRIDE, Is He Musical? (Chromatic Creative). Education: B.A. in Theatre Practice from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, studying Ph.D. in Queer Representation at University of Wolverhampton. matt-powell.co.uk,
@mattpowell_creative on Instagram.

Katharine Quinn (Associate Director) Director, choreographer, producer based in New York. Credits: Shucked (writing associate; Broadway), How to Dance in Ohio (writing assistant; Broadway), Tootsie (SDC Fellow; Broadway), Hercules (choreography assistant; The Public). Director/choreographer: Fun Home (Mill Mountain Theatre), Footloose (Midland Center), Mamma Mia! (Brick Road Theatre), Holiday Inn (Prather Entertainment), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (associate director; Tuacahn). Awards/nominations: SDC Traube Fellowship, Goodspeed Observership, BroadwayWorld Award nominee for Best Choreography for Newsies, 2018 OnStage Best of Theatre for Mamma Mia! (director/choreographer), Kelly Award. Education: M.F.A. in Arts Administration, B.F.A. in Directing from SMU. katharinequinn.com, @itskatharinequinn.

Jim Carnahan, CSA (Casting) The Old Globe: Almost Famous, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Comedy of Errors. Broadway: Doubt (Todd Haimes Theatre), Merrily We Roll Along (Hudson), Appropriate (Hayes), A Doll’s House (Hudson), Leopoldstadt (Longacre), A Beautiful Noise (Broadhurst), Funny Girl (August Wilson), Lehman Trilogy (Nederlander), Moulin Rouge! (Al Hirschfeld), Harry Potter (Lyric).Off Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Westside), The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory).London: Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix), An Enemy of the People (Duke of York’s), Plaza Suite (Savoy), Lemons x5 (Harold Pinter), Best of Enemies (National), Eureka Day (Old Vic), Mad House (Ambassador).Film: Beau Is Afraid.

Anjee Nero (Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Cabaret, Destiny of Desire, Come Fall in Love, Almost Famous, The Gardens of Anuncia, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Bright Star, Allegiance, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Rocky Horror Show, Life After, The Wanderers, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, Twenty-Seventh Man, A Room with a View, Kingdom, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Be a Good Little Widow, more. Broadway: Bright Star. Regional highlights: Bright Star (Kennedy Center), Fly, Sideways, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Herringbone, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse), Ruined (Huntington Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), Venice (Center Theatre Group), Antigone (SITI Company).

Sam Young (Music Supervisor and Additional Arrangements) Sought-after music director, arranger, orchestrator, pianist. Education: University of Cambridge, Berklee College of Music, Royal Academy of Music, including a full scholarship to the latter. Work: regularly performs and records with some of musical theatre’s leading artists, including Ramin Karimloo and Rachel Tucker; recently served as arranger and orchestrator for Stephen Schwartz’s 75th birthday concert at the Lyric Theatre. As orchestrator: Mandela (Young Vic). As musical supervisor/arranger: Ride (Southwark Playhouse, Leicester Curve, Charing Cross Theatre). As musical director/arranger: Lift (Southwark Playhouse), The Man in the Ceiling (Turbine Theatre). As associate/deputy musical director: MJ (West End), Sinatra (Birmingham Rep), Mandela (Young Vic), White Christmas (U.K. tour).

Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Cabaret, Destiny of Desire, Come Fall in Love, Life After, The Blameless, October Sky, Rain, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, over 40 more productions. Regional: Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, See How They Run, The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre). Education: UC San Diego.

Kendra Stockton (Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: The Age of Innocence, The XIXth, Come Fall in Love, The Taming of the Shrew, Trouble in Mind, Hair, Almost Famous, As You Like It, The Gods of Comedy, Familiar, Looking for Christmas, Much Ado About Nothing, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Bright Star, Dog and Pony, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional: House of Joy (San Diego Rep), Home of the Brave, #SuperShinySara, Guards at the Taj, The Orphan of Zhao, The Who & The What (La Jolla Playhouse), The Loneliest Girl in the World (Diversionary Theatre), miXtape (Lamb’s Players), White Christmas (San Diego Musical Theatre).

Wagner Johnson Productions, co-founded by eight-time Tony Award–winning producers Sue Wagner and John Johnson, specializes in producing and general managing theatrical productions and live experiences on Broadway and around the world. They have amassed over 50 Broadway credits including Vanya and Sonia..., A Gentleman’s Guide..., Hello, Dolly!, The Lehman Trilogy, Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Lempicka, and Stereophonic. Beyond Broadway they have produced The DiscOasis in Central Park, the history-making production of To Kill a Mockingbird at Madison Square Garden, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical Here We Are. @wjplive.