Harry Connick, Jr. is a rarity in the realm of entertainment, an artist whose meteoric rise in the world of music was only a prelude to a multi-faceted career.

Lauren Gunderson is one of the most produced playwrights in America, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundat

Andrew Fishman has a long career in multiple aspects of the live entertainment industry, strong commercial sensibility and history of creative programming.

Glen Hansard is an award-winning musician with a host of real-life songs and lilting vocals that reflect a passion for his diverse influences. Film: The Commitments, Once.

Marketa Irglová is an Academy Award winning musician and actor born in the Czech Republic. Film: Once and Milluji tě Modře.

Enda Walsh is an acclaimed playwright, screenwriter and director. His recent work includes the play Arlington and the opera The Second Violinist which both premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

DENNIS GREEN (Additional Lyrics) met Howard Ashman in 1975, shortly after moving to New York. He quickly convinced Mr.

Billy Barnes Lyricist, Composer, Musical Director.

Won two Emmy nominations for writing specialty material on TV for such stars as Carol Burnett, Danny Kaye, and Sonny & Cher.

Lebo M is known as the _x001c_ voice and spirit of The Lion King._x001d_ Once a teenage singer in Soweto, the GRAMMY® Award winner and TONY® nominee s music brings audiences to tears with hauntingly inspiring African rhythms and melodies.

A TONY® nominee and multi-platinum, three-time GRAMMY® Award-winning composer, he was an obvious choice to produce the music for the stage production of The Lion King,having arranged and produced songs for the blockbuster animated feature film, for which he received both GRAMMY® and American Musi