Joy Gregory (Writer/Lyricist) is a founding member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theater Company where her two most recently produced plays were The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Joseph Jefferson-nominated), and Race: How Blacks and Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession, a co-adaptation with David Schwimmer of the book by Studs Terkel (Joseph Jefferson-nomination for Best Adaptation). Joy currently writes for the new ABC drama “Windfall,” and previously wrote for CBS’s “Joan of Arcadia”.

Gunnar Madsen (Composer/Lyricist) is perhaps best known as founder, songwriter and performer with the internationally acclaimed acapella group The Bobs. Their first album, released in 1984, led to a Grammy nomination. Since then, The Bobs have released five more albums and Gunnar has received seven consecutive ASCAP songwriter’s awards for his work. He has written music for the feature films “Breaking the Rules” and “A Special Providence”; his music has been featured in many episodes of HBO’s hit show “Sex and the City”; and he is featured as the voice of Sammy Davis, Jr. in the Emmy-Award winning HBO film “The Rat Pack.”

John Langs (Director) For the past ten years John has had the privilege of working with great theatre artists throughout the country on contemporary, classical and music theatre. As a dedicated fan of new plays he has directed workshops at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC. The Manhattan Theatre Club, Audrey Skirbal Kennis Foundation and Seattle Dramatists. John has also directed productions for Empty Space (Seattle) American Players Theatre (Wisconsin) Theatre Alliance in (Washington D.C.) Circle X Theatre (Los Angeles) and The Washington Ensemble Theatre (Seattle). He has served as artistic director for The Full Contact Shakespeare Company of Sacramento, Calif.; The Golden Mean Theater Company of Los Angeles; Maui Onstage in the great state of Hawaii and is currently an Associate Artist at the Seattle Shakespeare Company, where he has directed productions of “King Lear” and “Romeo and Juliet.” In Los Angeles John helmed the production of the Neurotic Young Urbanites award-winning musical “Up the Week Without a Paddle,” He received a Backstage West Garland Award for his direction of “The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, the original musical which moved on to a Joseph Jefferson Nominated production at the Lookingglass Theatre Company of Chicago, and then to the Beckett theatre in NYC. Johns 2006 production of “The Brothers Karamazov” was honored with seven LADCC awards including Best Production of the year and Best Direction. In his off time John proudly teaches and directs and some of the top actor training programs in the country and when not on the road makes his home in Santa Monica.