David Shaw
Writer

Productions:

TOVARICH
Book [Original, Musical, Comedy] (Mar 18, 1963 - Nov 9, 1963).

REDHEAD
Book [Original, Musical, Comedy] (Feb 5, 1959 - Mar 19, 1960).

DAVID SHIRE wrote the music for Baby (Tony nominations for Best Score and Musical) and Big (nominated for Best Score).

Elizabeth Diggs is a playwright and professor of Dramatic Writing in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at Tisch, NYU. She was born in Tulsa and went to college at Brown where she co-wrote the annual musical with her future partner Emily Arnold McCully.

Eubie Blake, christened James Hurbert Blake, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 7, 1883, the son of John Sumner Blake, a stevedore and laundress. His parents, who were former slaves, bore eleven children of which only Eubie survived to adulthood.

FRANCESCA BLUMENTHAL won the Backstage Bistro Award, MAC Award and special ASCAP Prize in 2001.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (Born: April 29, 1899 in Washington, DC - Died: May 24, 1974 in New York City) was an American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 and in 1973, the Legion of Honor by France.

Eaton Magoon, Jr. author, Luricist and composer of 13 Daughters, was born and raised in Hawaii. He left the Islands to attend Yale University and, upon his graduation in 1945, returned to Hawaii.

Eleanor Harder is an author, composer/lyricist, has written over 20 plays and musicals, many with her husband, Ray. A graduate of UCLA in theatrer and music, she has received numerous awards for her work and a grant from the state of Michigan for a new musical.