Brian Feinstein (Composer)

Erin Soderberg Downing (Author) has written more than seventy-five books for kids, including several series for young readers: The Great Peach Experiment (a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection), Puppy Pirates, The Quirks, and Disneys Daring Dreamers Club. She has also published many other novels for middle-grade readers, including Moon Shadow and Controlled Burn (coming November 2022). Erins favorite hobbies are reading, swimming, baking, exploring the woods, traveling with her family, and walking around Minneapolis lakes with her fluffy and mischievous dogs, Wally and Nutmeg. More information can be found at www.erinsoderberg.com

A. J. Freeman (Book & Lyrics) is a writer, director, teacher, and performer originally from Los Angeles and now based in New York. She is a lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, a member of the Theatre Now New York Musical Writers Lab, and a cabaret performer, championing brilliant but forgotten music of the 1920s and 30s. She has worked for over 12 years in educational theatre, directing dozens of full scale productions, and running her own literacy-based musical theatre program for low income students in schools all over Los Angeles. Through this program, The Troupe, thousands of children received free reading books. The Troupes free theatre workshops and assemblies inspired students from all backgrounds to use their gifts and talents through visual and performing arts. A. J.'s musicals include: A Cordial Invitation, Hay Fever, fables, In Other Words, Derailed!, and The Carousel of Inevitability and Certain Foreboding. www.aj-freeman.com