Steven Lutvak made his Broadway debut with his score to A Gentleman's Guide to Love And Murder, for which he supplied the music, and co-wrote the lyrics with Robert L. Freedman.

James Fenton was educated at the Durham Choristersi School, Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry.

Evans Haile has served as the Producing Artistic Director of North Shore Music Theatre and currently serves as Artistic Director of Cape Cod's Cape Playhouse, America's oldest professional summer theatre.

Rebecca Feldman is the conceiver of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for which she won a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk and Tony Nomination for Best Musical. She directed its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in the summer of 2004. 

Jay Reiss is playwright. He is a Julliard graduate and provided additional material to the book for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. Reiss appeared in the original workshops, Off-Broadway cast, and Broadway cast of the musical as Vice Principal Douglas Panch.

Scott Ellis is an American stage director and television director. Ellis has directed numerous Off-Broadway and Broadway productions, including the New York City Opera Company revivals at the New York State Theatre.

Broadway/West End credits: Death Note: The musical (book), Bonnie & Clyde (book), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (additional material), and his comedy, The Cemetery Club, which has been produced worldwide, in over a dozen languages.

Erich Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and Classics Professor.

Arthur Schwartz (1900-1984) was the son of a lawyer who had his first contact with show business playing piano for the silent films.